Re: hwclock --systohc locks machine up, RTC conflict problems

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Dec 18 2007 - 19:31:51 EST



* kinesis <jriley1337@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> my machine is 64bit running SLAMD64 v12 (slackware) Linux excalibur
> 2.6.24-rc4-kinesis-g94545bad #8 SMP Sun Dec 9 10:47:29 PST 2007 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Issuing the command hwclock --systohc and sometimes at boot --hctosys
> causes my machine to freeze.

could you try the "x86: IO delay quirk" patch attached to this bugzilla:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6307

please boot with io_delay=0xed [or io_delay=udelay or io_delay=none].

does that fix the lockups?

Ingo
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