>> What kernel patches are going to be merged upstream in the 2.6.24 merge >> window? Is the force hpet patch finally going to be merged? > > the -hrt patches (tickless for 64 bit) and the hpet force patches have > been merged into 2.6.24 already > (2.6.24 merge window is closed for a week or so now already)
Up until now I've been successfully using the hrtimers patches for 2.6.23 and have my wakeups down to about 10/sec on an idle system (mostly due to compiz). Recently I upgraded to a 2.6.24-rc1 kernel and used my old config file with make oldconfig to ensure the hpet options were selected (they were). But when I reboot into 2.6.24 then I don't have hpet as a possible timer (from /proc/timer_list) and I get the warning message from powertop that I should force-enable hpet. My machine is a t41p thinkpad with an Intel ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M (82081DB/DBL/DBM) and as I mentioned, it used to work with the last 2.6.23 hrtimer patches. Any ideas on why the new kernel is not forcing hpet in my machine? Alec _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
