Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 timer int 0 doesn't work

Eric W. Biederman
2006-07-29T19:52:40Z

Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> writes:

> On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 01:38 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> It's remove-timer-fallback likely. I was working on that already.
>>
>> Some boards go into the timer fallback path since 2.6.17/64bit for so
>> far unknown reasons and that doesn't work anymore because I removed the
>> fallback path.
>
> remove-timer-fallback did not reverse cleanly against 2.6.18-rc2-mm1
>
> I tried to patch it up and got it to compile without
> errors or warnings. The result was a hard freeze early in
> the boot, so I suspect more is necessary to restore that
> function.

Any chance you can post the your reversed version of remove-timer-fallback
so we can have a clue about what happened.

Eric