From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759301AbZBZVys (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:54:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755702AbZBZVyj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:54:39 -0500 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:43265 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752930AbZBZVyj (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:54:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29-rc6 From: john stultz To: Jesper Krogh Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Len Brown In-Reply-To: <49A70B24.6090706@krogh.cc> References: <49A6F39F.9040801@krogh.cc> <49A6FEE2.90700@krogh.cc> <1f1b08da0902261319k7a60d80xaafc1101facfd2d9@mail.gmail.com> <49A70B24.6090706@krogh.cc> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:54:29 -0800 Message-Id: <1235685269.6811.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 22:35 +0100, Jesper Krogh wrote: > > Also mind sending the full dmesg for both kernels? > > http://krogh.cc/~jesper/dmesg-2.6.29-rc6.txt > http://krogh.cc/~jesper/dmesg-2.6.26.8.txt So one interesting difference: 2.6.26.8: TSC calibrated against PM_TIMER 2.6.29-rc6: Fast TSC calibration using PIT Thomas, any thoughts as to why we might be calibrating off the PIT instead of the PM_TIMER w/ 2.6.29? Maybe does this line provide a hint? FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (16) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4) thanks -john