Re: HPET regression in 2.6.26 versus 2.6.25

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Aug 05 2008 - 15:20:01 EST


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:14 AM, David Witbrodt <dawitbro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Since you have that git tree, could you try to see if the latest -git
>> still has this problem?
>
> I had forgotten to do that at the time I posted.
>
> Last night, after the post, I _did_ try building "master". The commit
> date was from Aug. 1 -- I am at work right now, so I can't provide exact
> info until I get home in about 6 hours. I checked 'Makefile', and the
> version there was 2.6.27-rc1, IIRC.
> It built fine, but same freeze was seen.
>
> A reversion of the commit I mentioned _will_ solve the problem, but
> looking at the code I saw that it was an attempt to provide better
> functionality. I'm willing to help test modifications to make the new
> code work!

please boot with "debug apic=verbose initcall_debut" to check exactly
where it hangs...

YH
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