From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:30:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174912202.4182.34.camel@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070326122526.BD45DDBA1@gherkin.frus.com>
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 07:25 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > This fix from John Stultz is still missing:
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/287
> >
> > It's in Andrews queue already and waits to be sent to you.
>
> In summary, that fix is a workaround to allow the acpi_pm clocksource
> to be selected instead of the pit clocksource, thereby allowing my
> Dell laptop with the PIIX4 bug to boot. Other apic, clocksource, etc.
> patches that were included in -rc5 fixed the problem that caused the
> boot process to hang when the pit clocksource was selected, as I
> suspected would be the case :-).
Ah. Ok
> Per John's message in the above URL, while the fix is no longer needed
> for allowing the laptop to boot, it's probably still "a good thing" to
> allow a better clocksource to be selected.
Yes. The read three times pmtimer is faster and more reliable than the
PIT.
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-25 23:08 Linux 2.6.21-rc5 Linus Torvalds
2007-03-26 8:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 8:17 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2007-03-26 8:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 8:58 ` [patch] forcedeth: work around NULL skb dereference crash Ingo Molnar
2007-04-02 11:56 ` [patch] forcedeth: improve NAPI logic Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 8:55 ` Linux 2.6.21-rc5 Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-26 12:25 ` Bob Tracy
2007-03-26 12:30 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-03-26 9:04 ` 2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82! Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 18:12 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-03-26 19:03 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-03-27 7:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 9:21 ` [PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for now Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-26 9:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 18:57 ` Greg KH
2007-03-26 12:51 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-27 7:08 ` [PATCH] i386: Fix bogus return value in hpet_next_event() Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-26 10:11 ` -rc5: e1000 resume weirdness Ingo Molnar
2007-03-26 15:39 ` Kok, Auke
2007-03-26 15:50 ` Jesse Brandeburg
2007-03-26 15:55 ` Kok, Auke
2007-03-26 17:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-27 1:59 ` [1/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-03-28 18:54 ` Kok, Auke
2007-03-28 19:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-30 18:04 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-30 12:04 ` [bug] hung bootup in various drivers, was: "2.6.21-rc5: known regressions" Ingo Molnar
2007-03-30 12:06 ` [bug] fixed_init(): BUG: at drivers/base/core.c:120 device_release(), " Ingo Molnar
2007-03-30 14:18 ` Greg KH
2007-03-30 14:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-30 16:31 ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-03-30 14:16 ` [bug] hung bootup in various drivers, " Greg KH
2007-03-30 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-30 19:32 ` Greg KH
2007-03-31 2:32 ` Kay Sievers
2007-03-31 16:51 ` [patch] driver core: fix built-in drivers sysfs links Ingo Molnar
2007-03-31 16:31 ` [bug] hung bootup in various drivers, was: "2.6.21-rc5: known regressions" Ingo Molnar
2007-04-01 7:49 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-01 17:35 ` [patch] driver core: if built-in, do not wait in driver_unregister() Ingo Molnar
2007-04-02 1:47 ` Greg KH
2007-03-27 1:59 ` [2/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-03-28 19:46 ` Laurent Riffard
2007-03-29 19:02 ` Fabio Comolli
2007-03-27 1:59 ` [3/5] " Adrian Bunk
2007-03-27 1:59 ` [4/5] " Adrian Bunk
2007-03-27 8:00 ` Marcus Better
2007-03-27 13:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-27 16:53 ` Marcus Better
2007-03-27 20:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-27 10:09 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-27 22:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-27 22:45 ` Thomas Meyer
2007-03-28 12:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-28 12:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-28 13:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-28 13:06 ` [patch] MSI-X: fix resume crash Ingo Molnar
2007-03-28 13:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-28 13:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-29 4:30 ` Len Brown
2007-03-29 4:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-27 1:59 ` [5/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions Adrian Bunk
2007-03-27 5:51 ` ATA ACPI (was Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5) Jeff Garzik
2007-03-27 5:54 ` Tejun Heo
2007-03-27 21:32 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-28 9:51 ` Tejun Heo
2007-03-27 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-27 18:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-03-27 6:17 ` Linux 2.6.21-rc5 Andrew Morton
2007-03-27 6:20 ` Greg KH
2007-03-27 16:49 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-03-27 9:49 ` Takashi Iwai
2007-03-27 12:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-27 16:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-27 12:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-28 22:32 ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-03-27 18:34 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-27 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-27 22:55 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-27 18:53 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-28 14:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-28 14:56 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-28 16:12 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-03-28 16:51 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-28 17:56 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <20070327230024.GJ16477@stusta.de>
2007-03-27 23:10 ` 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions with patches Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-03-28 0:50 ` Jay Cliburn
2007-03-30 21:32 ` [1/4] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-03-30 21:38 ` Greg KH
2007-03-31 0:23 ` Michal Jaegermann
2007-03-31 15:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-31 16:42 ` Michal Jaegermann
2007-03-30 21:32 ` [2/4] " Adrian Bunk
2007-03-30 21:32 ` [3/4] " Adrian Bunk
2007-03-31 2:52 ` Jeff Chua
2007-03-31 3:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-03-31 11:08 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-01 5:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-13 16:32 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-03-30 21:49 ` [4/4] " Adrian Bunk
2007-03-31 2:41 ` Jeff Chua
2007-03-31 6:44 ` Frédéric Riss
2007-04-01 7:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-04-01 20:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-03-31 18:19 ` 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions with patches (v2) Adrian Bunk
2007-04-03 4:05 ` [PATCH] libata: add NCQ blacklist entries from Silicon Image Windows driver (v2) Robert Hancock
2007-04-03 4:13 ` Tejun Heo
2007-04-04 6:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-04 14:26 ` Robert Hancock
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