From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 29 6: 3:36 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E87937B403; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id EACE84B3; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:03:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 14:03:08 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Mike Smith Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_timer.c Message-ID: <20010729140307.A3419@tao.org.uk> References: <20010728180718.A736@tao.org.uk> <200107282037.f6SKb0J02107@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107282037.f6SKb0J02107@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 01:37:00PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > msmith 2001/07/27 02:01:13 PDT > > >=3D20 > > > Modified files: > > > sys/dev/acpica acpi_timer.c=3D20 > > > Log: > > > The ACPI timer register corruption problem is resolved in the PIIX4 > > > starting with the PIIX4M. Restrict enabling the workaround to those > > > chips known to be buggy. > >=20 > > What effect would we observe if the workaround wasn't installed on > > buggy chips? >=20 > I'd expect to see the dreaded "microtime went backwards" messages. Ah ok. I've got a loaner Inspiron 5000 whilst my i5000e is being repaired, but for some reason -current is randomly handing on it, whereas it didn't hang on the i5000e. I thought that it was maybe an ACPI problem, but it still occurs if I boot on a non ACPI/non APM kernel too. Joe --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtkCYoACgkQXVIcjOaxUBb3/gCgqfH1W0SFmYFSfcxZpF7ZeDyx ddUAnRlPIFupXduhoHSWbG+MJoZKg/3n =KDLb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message