Re: patch for timer.c

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 11:37:50 EST


On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:19:32 +0200, Uwe Bugla said:

> BUT: This is a Pentium-4-only solution. On my file server, which is a Pentium
> 3 machine, the kernel stops booting and hangs the machine, no matter if I use
> framebuffer console with vga=791 or not.

Odd.. there wasn't anything P4-specific in that patch..

> Would you please try to find a fix for every architecture at any speed?

Are you *positive* that your Pentium3 box is hanging up for the same reason?
It could be it's something else entirely. What point does it hang at, and
does sysrq-T tell you anything useful?

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