On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:14:41AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > We just got a completely different bug reported that was confirmed to be
> > caused by Andi's patch:
> > AMD64/ATI : timer is running twice as fast as it should [1]
>
> I have such a machine that showed this problem and when I wrote the patch I
> tested it on it (and on a couple of others of course). No twice as fast on
> my testing.
>
> In fact there are two types of ATI machines: ones that have a BIOS workaround
> for the original Linux issue and ones that don't. Keeping both
> happy is not easy.
>
> So I'm somewhat dubious on that. Where is that report?
Follow the link [1] in my email (and the bug is already assigned to
you).
> > My whole point is that for 2.6.20, we can live with simply reverting
> > Andi's commit.
>
> I agree. It's more problematical than I expected. Reverting is
> the best option right now.
>
> -Andi
cu
Adrian
[1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7789
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