Armin Schindler wrote:
> Do I have to activate/configure interrupts(controller) stuff
> before the kernel can be started ?
>
> What I don't understand is, that after the 'hlt' check
> (when check is disabled), everything else works. It seems
> that the kernel expects something set when hlt is checked, and
> afterwards the kernel sets it by itself !?
>
> Armin
I think it should be the Real Time Clock (the BIOS clock) that you did
not
inited properly. We got this problem for SiS 630/730 a long time ago and
Eric has the same problem for AMD chipset. You can take a look at
sis/630/southbridge.c to have some idea how to setup the legacy PC
timer/clock.
Ollie
