> The problem is this workaround doesn't fix a chipset issue, it fixes
> incorrect entries in the BIOS ACPI tables. This bug existed in the
> NVIDIA reference BIOS for nForce2 and got copied to all customer BIOSes
> for nForce2. Even though our reference BIOSes and documentation for all
> chipsets since then have the correct interrupt overrides in the ACPI
> tables we still see customer BIOSes that get shipped with incorrect
> entries that were probably copied from their nForce2 BIOS code.
Ah my understanding was that it applied to NF3 and possible NF4 too. Does it
not?
> I believe the HPET check was because the workaround was causing problems
> when enabling HPET on systems that support it. Andy probably has more
> details on that.
Yes it was because NF5 needed it to be disabled. Anyways if I can
get a list of PCI-IDs of chipsets where the reference BIOS had this
issue it can be narrowed to those.
-Andi
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