Robert Hancock wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
2.6.18 is the latest released kernel, I don't think calling one
release back "ancient" is really advancing the solution. The problem
seems to have been reported in August, and is still not fixed, I do
understand that he would feel there is no progress.
How long will you wait before putting in the fix Marc Perkel
suggested, perhaps with a warning logged that it's a band-aid? Many
users will not be astute enough to find this discussion, the bug
report, the fix, configure and build a kernel, etc. And not all
distributions will address it either.
As far as the "fix" of disabling the skip-ACPI-timer-override, that is
not something that can be put in the kernel as it will break other
boards that require the ACPI timer override not to be used (like many
nForce2 boards for example). Breaking working setups in order to fix
others isn't acceptable.
There are clearly some NVIDIA chipsets which require the override be
skipped, and some which require it not be. I think the ball is currently
in NVIDIA's court to provide a way of figuring out which chipsets
require the quirk and which don't..
The kernel seems to handle lots of other quirks, I agree that this
should not be the default behavior, but it certainly seems possible to
catch this on the more common cases for which it is needed.
The boards which need it probably should be the exception, 2.6 kernels
did without it for several years, and breaking hardware which worked up
through 2.6.15 is probably not the best way to cope with new boards. I
don't think ignoring the problem while waiting for nVidia is good
policy, since it's a regression.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.
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