Instead of adding all kinds of more quirks try various timer
routing variants in check_timer.
In particular this tries to handle quirks from:
- Nvidia NF2-4 reference BIOS: wrong timer override
- Asus: Wrong timer override but no HPET table
- ATI: require timer disabled in 8259
- Some boards: require timer enabled in 8259
We just try many of the the known variants in the hopefully right order
in check_timer.
Trying pin 0/2 on Nvidia suggested by Tim Hockin.
TBD Experimental. Needs a lot of testing
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.
We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
By default route the 8254 over the 8259 and only disable
it on ATI boards where this causes double timer interrupts.
This should unbreak some Nvidia boards where the timer doesn't
seem to tick of it isn't enabled in the 8259. At least one
VIA board also seemed to have a little trouble with the disabled
8259.
For 2.6.20 we'll try both dynamically without black listing, but I think
for .19 this is the safer approach because it has been already well tested
in earlier kernels. This also makes the x86-64 behaviour the same
as i386.
Command line options can change all this of course.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Some buggy systems can machine check when config space accesses
happen for some non existent devices. i386/x86-64 do some early
device scans that might trigger this. Allow pci=noearly to disable
this. Also when type 1 is disabling also don't do any early
accesses which are always type1.
This moves the pci= configuration parsing to be a early parameter.
I don't think this can break anything because it only changes
a single global that is only used by PCI.
Cc: gregkh@suse.de
Cc: Trammell Hudson <hudson@osresearch.net>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
They did not really belong into io_apic.c. Move them into a new file
and clean it up a bit.
Also remove outdated ATI quirk that was obsolete,
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andi Kleen