Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-22T19:36:07Z

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 12:25 -0700, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:14 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > john stultz wrote:
> > > Try this patch and let me know if it does the right thing.
> >
> > Will do. I'll report back in a few hours.
> >
> > > Although I do
> > > still need to dig a bit on the PIT hang issue.
> >
> > Any chance this might be related to the APIC issues currently being
> > discussed in other threads?
>
> Hmmm. Good thought, I'll have to look into it. It could be that if the
> PIT is disabled in favor of the local apic, we'll have to make sure its
> not being used as a clocksource.

Ouch, yes. That's fatal and can happen. Not sure, what to do about that.

tglx