From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86_64: warn if unable to configure apic main timer
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:24:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602231024.38599.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602230420_MC3-1-B90E-39AF@compuserve.com>
On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:17, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> When using the APIC main timer option on x86_64, sometimes it
> fails to complete its setup. Warn about this and suggest
> the user try 'disable_timer_pin_1' if their system clock runs
> too fast. Also, make printing of the exact result of APIC
> timer calibration require 'apic=verbose'.
This is not the right solution. Have to find out what's going
wrong and fix that.
I'm also experimenting with a different way to run the timer
because apicmaintimer doesn't work on a lot of laptops
because they have trouble running the APIC timer during c2.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 9:25 UTC|newest]
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2006-02-23 9:17 [patch] x86_64: warn if unable to configure apic main timer Chuck Ebbert
2006-02-23 9:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2006-02-23 18:07 Chuck Ebbert
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