From: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:06:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133471197.3604.3.camel@xpc.home.erwinrol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051201204339.GC997@wotan.suse.de>
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:43 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:30:03PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Currently the HPET timer option isn't visible in menuconfig.
> > >
> > > Do you want it to?
> > >
> > > Why would you ever compile it out?
> >
> > For timer testing purposes i sometimes would like not to use the HPET.
> > Would a runtime switch be preferred?
>
> nohpet already exists.
>
And luckily it does cause without "nohpet" i can't boot my shuttle
ST20G5, the NMI watchdog kills it because ti hangs when initializing the
hpet. If the nmi watchdog is off it just hangs for ever.
- Erwin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-01 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-01 19:44 [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 19:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-01 19:53 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 20:30 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 20:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-01 21:06 ` Erwin Rol [this message]
2005-12-01 21:18 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-08 13:53 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-08 14:58 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-08 15:23 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-09 19:56 ` Erwin Rol
2005-12-01 23:13 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-12-01 20:51 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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