Re: High resolution timers on ACPI-less kernel

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On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, John Sigler wrote:
> Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 11:06 +0200, John Sigler wrote:
> > [...] 
> > > I enabled high resolution timer support and disabled ACPI support.
> > [...]
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg00375.html
> 
> There are other clock sources on my system.
> The timestamp counter is reliable (as far as I can tell).

See previous mail.

> The LAPIC timer is reliable.

LAPIC timer is a clock event device, not a clock source. It can be
used to program the next event, but not to read the time.

> (I've just disabled the PM timer.)

Yup, which in turn disables highres.

     tglx

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