Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> Daniele Nicolodi wrote:
>>>> Booting a working 2.6.30 kernel I noticed this error message as first
>>>> output on the console. Can it be related to my issue with more modern
>>>> kernels and ipipe patches?
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea of what it means.
>>> Is APIC enabled in your kernel configuration?
>> It likely is.
>>
>> I'm getting this error for many kernel releases now. It must be related
>> to I-pipe's patching of the APIC or IO-APIC code. Irritating but mostly
>> harmless.
> 
> What I mean is that when Xenomai wants to use the 8254 (which is the
> case if the APIC is disabled in linux kernel configuration) and the 8254
> has become unreachable by Linux by some change in recent versions,
> Xenomai timing subystem becomes screwed up.
> 
> When, on the other hand, Xenomai wants to use the APIC, the fact that
> the 8254 has become unreachable is harmless.

...but people continue to report this as bug.

> 
> And from the .config Daniele posted, it appears that he disabled APIC,
> so that Xenomai is trying to use the 8254.

Right. And the HPET is on, so this programmed to fail.

Daniele, please enable CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC or disable CONFIG_HPET_TIMER -
just as Kconfig warned you.

Jan

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