ACPI problems on HP Compaq nx6325

[Nate Lawson]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2007 17:24, Nate Lawson wrote:
>> Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>>> As Nate Lawson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Have a look at PR i386/104678, and the patches referenced there.
>>>>> Using these patches, my nx6325 works reasonably well.  ...
>>>> I looked at this and the solution should be "don't use anything
>>>> other than C1".
>>> Nothing else is supported on the nx6325 anyway, only C1.  So that's
>>> certainly not the problem here.
>> If nothing other than C1 is supported, I am almost certain the patch 
>> doesn't affect anything.  So what problem were you seeing and how is it 
>> changed?
> 
> These CPUs turn off the lapic timer in C1.
> 

Apologies for my mistake.  I see now that there's not an easy fix to 
this.  Should we make it easier for such people to use some other timer 
but not mixed mode?  What about the HPET given that these are very new 
systems and should have it?

-- 
Nate