"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > - Another thing to try is to disable HPET and boot with PIT in the first > kernel. Just to check whether PIT never works on this platform or the > first kernel is doing something to stop PIT. You can try "hpet=disable" > boot option for that. I don't know what the original patch looked like. It doesn't seem to have made it to any mailling lists to which I'm subscribed. But I'm wondering of there is a bug in the shutdown routines for the pit or the hpet that is causing problems. As this is a normal kexec those routines will get called. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html