Re: 2.6.24-rc8 hangs at mfgpt-timer

[Andres Salomon]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:19:12 -0500
Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:44:07 +0100
> Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to boot 2.6.24-rc8 on a GEODE LX board (ALIX.3),
> > and it hangs during boot:
> > 
> > [   12.689971] NET: Registered protocol family 16
> > [   12.703329] geode-mfgpt:  Registered timer 0
> > [   12.716149] mfgpt-timer:  registering the MFGT timer as a clock event...
> > 
> 
> 
> What BIOS are you using?  It's possible that our detection code is
> failing to detect in-use timers.


Also, could you provide a log with the following (untested) patch?  I'm
curious how many MFGPTs we're actually detecting as being available, and
the existing code is backwards.