Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:56:41AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 02:25:45 Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:45:13AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > On 07/11/2007 01:23 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346
> > > > >
> > > > > Problems start to appear when the hpet stuff for x86_64 went it, and
> did
> > > > > not vanish when you disabled the forced-hpet for some of the recent
> > > > > ICH's from Intel (which afaics [would need the lspci data to be
> sure]
> > > > > are in both our machines).
> > > > >
> > > > > /me will later update the bug with the lspci output when I'm in
> front of
> > > > > my laptop again.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, I'm picking over that bug now. Will try and find a box I can
> > > > reproduce this on tomorrow.
> > >
> > > The Fedora 6 kernel doesn't boot either, at least on a Dell Workstation
> > > 490, without "nohpet".
> >
> > Lets just drop the 64bit tickless stuff for now, it clearly isn't baked,
> > and isn't going to get much better by the end of the week (which I want
> > to get something into updates-testing by).
> >
>
> Do you (or does anyone else) know if Thomas is aware of these issues? I
> haven't noticed anything on LKML.
I've been talking with him. The hpet related stuff is on hold though
until Venki gets back from vacation.
tglx fixed the nohpet bug see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346
So can we merge back hrtimers + this patch and give it another try?
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