Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Sep 2008 21:08:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't boot on a Pavilion laptop |
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:40:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > I now see why this is happening and it is happening only on systems > > with a fast HPET. Your's running 25MHz, so the delta is only 1.92 > > usec. I was staring at lots of those bugreports without noticing the > > frequency. > > > > Sigh. The idea to take a fixed number of HPET cycles as the minimum > > was not really brilliant it seems. > > > > Does the patch below help ? Keep the debug patch applied, as we can > > see whether the check triggers or not. > > Works for me... I'm just got only second backtrace after mounting rootfs. > Looks like something is broken with git tree.
Is the box continuing to work after that warning/backtrace ? This is still on the x86 git tree, right ? Please verify whether mainline (linus git tree) has the same problem.
Thanks,
tglx
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