-The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware is the future replacementhttp://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/27-git8/Documentation/hpet.txt
-for the 8254 and Real Time Clock (RTC) periodic timer functionality.
-Each HPET can have up to 32 timers. It is possible to configure the
-first two timers as legacy replacements for 8254 and RTC periodic timers.
-A specification done by Intel and Microsoft can be found at
-<http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/hpetspec.htm>.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPET
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Kevin J. Cummings <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Reed wrote:
I found this in the linux kernel bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418
Put hpet=disable in the kernel command line and see if that works. It
did for me.
BTW, I have no idea on what hpet is.
What's the problem? First answer listed from googling "hpet":Yes thanks that seems to have fixed the problem. Booted fine. I have no idea what hpet is but it seems to have something to do with amd processor.
High Precision Event Timer
Peter
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome@xxxxxxx
cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yours,
Waleed Harbi
If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep.
-- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
