On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 02:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:13:02 -0800 john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when > > the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource > > selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall). > > > > This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since > > clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct > > timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own > > boxes. > > This doornails my Nocona box early in boot: > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000431.jpg > > Slab isn't ready yet - time_init()->hpet_arch_init() is called before > start_kernel() has run kmem_cache_init().
Oh! Sorry! Yea, looking at it more the ioremap isn't actually necessary, as we can use hpet_readl() instead of re-calculating the hpet base address pointer. I'll fix this up (and find an HPET enabled x86_64 box to test it on) and get a patch to you shortly. Sorry again! -john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
