Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:07:30 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86_64: warn if unable to configure apic main timer |
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In-Reply-To: <200602231024.38599.ak@suse.de>
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 at 10:24:38 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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 was thinking of this more as a band-aid for 2.6.16.
But this patch is broken anyway; it will print the message on non-bootstrap CPUs.
> 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.
Yeah, I saw the Intel patch that does the exact opposite of apicmaintimer. It's kind of funny having both of them in there.
-- Chuck "Equations are the Devil's sentences." --Stephen Colbert
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