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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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