About HPET is_hpet_capable()

2011-08-09 Thread limp
Hi all, I am having a deeper look on Linux hpet code and I was wondering how exactly is_hpet_capable() works. From the name of it, I assume that this function checks if the system supports HPET or not but I can't really tell how it does that. The function is the following: static inline int

Re: About HPET is_hpet_capable()

2011-08-09 Thread Stratos Psomadakis
On 08/09/2011 11:28 AM, limp wrote: Hi all, I am having a deeper look on Linux hpet code and I was wondering how exactly is_hpet_capable() works. From the name of it, I assume that this function checks if the system supports HPET or not but I can't really tell how it does that. The

Debugging Kernel Panic

2011-08-09 Thread Zac Storer
I'm using fedora 15, and just compiled 3.0.1 stable. I'm getting a kernel panic when I close my laptop lid and it goes into suspend. How should I go about debugging this? Are there error logs I can check? Is there some way I can debug the linux kernel image? I'm a complete newb to linux dev, so