From: Pallipadi, Venkatesh Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:09:52 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86: Disable HPET MSI on ATI SB700/SB800 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc6~18^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=73472a46b5b28116b145fb5fc05242c1aa8e1461;p=pandora-kernel.git x86: Disable HPET MSI on ATI SB700/SB800 HPET MSI on platforms with ATI SB700/SB800 as they seem to have some side-effects on floppy DMA. Do not use HPET MSI on such platforms. Original problem report from Mark Hounschell http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0912.2/01118.html [ This patch needs to go to stable as well. But, there are some conflicts that prevents the patch from going as is. I can rebase/resubmit to stable once the patch goes upstream. hpa: still Cc:'ing stable@ as an FYI. ] Tested-by: Mark Hounschell Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: LKML-Reference: <20100121190952.GA32523@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- Reading git-diff-tree failed