Re: ati xpress200: clock too fast => no_timer_check not working

[JG <jg@cms.ac>]

here's the output of dmesg with "noapictimer" kernel parameter. there
are some problems, e.g. ntp-client crashes on boot, and some IRQ error
messages, ...

$ cat /proc/interrupts (after 12min uptime)
           CPU0
  0:     184917          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       1163          XT-PIC  i8042
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:      22803          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:          0          XT-PIC  acpi
 10:       4606          XT-PIC  eth0
 11:     100000          XT-PIC  ohci1394, ehci_hcd:usb1,
ohci_hcd:usb2, ohci_hcd:usb3, ATI IXP, ATI IXP Modem, yenta
 12:        582          XT-PIC  i8042
 14:      57835          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:       6250          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:     184871
ERR:       4541
MIS:          0


dmesg (attached):
there are many messages like those:
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 0)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 1c)
atiixp: codec read timeout (reg 3c)

JG

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