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SubjectRe: System clock runs too fast after 2.6.27 -> 2.6.28.1 upgrade

* Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu> wrote:

> Le Saturday 24 January 2009 10:14:04 Ingo Molnar, vous avez écrit :
> > * john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > > > * john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > >> I'd think this would ideally be more of a subarch in the config
> > > >> selection like the AMD Elan is, so folks know it really is not just a
> > > >> extra-support feature and in fact limits what hardware you can use the
> > > >> resulting kernel on.
> > > >
> > > > a better solution is that if RDC is set [it is unset by default] we
> > > > should turn PIT_TICK_RATE into a variable, defaulting it to 1193182. If
> > > > a real RDC or ELAN system is running, that variable is changed during
> > > > early bootup, in the init functions for those platforms.
> > >
> > > Took a quick look at this, and I don't see any detection code for either
> > > RDC. The X86_ELAN config also has no conditionals, but maybe the elan
> > > cpufreq code can help here.
> >
> > i'd suggest to just remove the #ifdef for now (it's causing problems) and
> > add the variable - we can add the quirks for those two platforms later on,
> > separately from your patch(es).
>
> Fine with me. Ingo, is there any infrastructure yet to get an early
> quirk set the PIT tick rate accordingly ?

Not yet but it should be easy - do you have the time to implement it?

Ingo
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