On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:25 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > This fix from John Stultz is still missing: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/287 > > > > It's in Andrews queue already and waits to be sent to you. > > In summary, that fix is a workaround to allow the acpi_pm clocksource > to be selected instead of the pit clocksource, thereby allowing my > Dell laptop with the PIIX4 bug to boot. Other apic, clocksource, etc. > patches that were included in -rc5 fixed the problem that caused the > boot process to hang when the pit clocksource was selected, as I > suspected would be the case :-).
Ah. Ok > Per John's message in the above URL, while the fix is no longer needed > for allowing the laptop to boot, it's probably still "a good thing" to > allow a better clocksource to be selected. Yes. The read three times pmtimer is faster and more reliable than the PIT. tglx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/