On Monday, 24 September 2007 21:13, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 21:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > /me scratches head > > > > Retested. > > > > > We know, that > > > - disabling local apic timers work > > > > This works reproducibly accross the board. > > Ok > > > > - local apic timers (which turn off PIT) work. when noacpiFSCKEDPARSING > > > > This stopped working, although it evidently worked yesterday (wtf?). > > > > There seems to be a history effect in the box, to make things more > > "interesting". > > Did you connect this box to Andrews VAIO during KS ?
No, but it's famous for being interestingly broken nevertheless. > > I think the only solid data point so far is that "noapictimer" makes the box > > boot. > > Ok. Can you add "nmi_watchdog=1" to the command line please. This runs > through the calibration of APIC, but registers it as a dummy clock > source (the PIT must run to make the watchdog work). > > If it boots, please provide the output of /proc/timer_list No, it doesn't. Greetings, Rafael - 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/
