Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:56:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59 |
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Umm. Which one. The 32-bit or the 64-bit? > > The 32 bit version.
So then the PIT isn't going to work on that machine. Do you have HPET?
Because if so, the most obvious choice would be to say:
- on old machines, the PIT is likely more reliable than PM_TIMER
- on new machines, the HPET is likely more reliable than PIT
and there's actually a fairly obvious place to distinguish between old and new: if ti has a HPET, consider it a new one.
But that just means that there's never any reason to use PM_TIMER anyway, and the proper patch would probably be to just ignore it. No?
Linus
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