Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25 -- found another user with the same regression

David Witbrodt
2008-08-21T13:33:21Z

> > Please advise me on how you would like me to handle 2.6.27 kernels.
> > If I use your patch on 2.6.27-rc3, the message scroll off the 80x25
> > screen before I can see them...
>
> Couldn't you play with CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY?

Thanks for this! I am not a developer, so I am not familiar with all
of the little tweaks available in the kernel configs -- I've probably
seen this dozens of times, but ignored it because I wasn't debugging.

Now that I _am_ debugging, I wish I had paid more attention.

When I tried it, my kernel hung much earlier in the boot process. The
help text for CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY even mentions that this can be
a problems on SMP systems, and that is exactly what I have.

Bummer.

Thanks though,
Dave W.