Re: Regression in 2.6.22, clock problems on Turion with 32-bit kernel

From: Cal Peake
Date: Fri Aug 03 2007 - 11:51:18 EST


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Ben Collins wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 08:30 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > I've tried every combination of boot param revolving around clocksource
> > > and interrupts. The only thing that gets me booting is nolapic, but then
> > > again, that knocks me down to a single cpu.
> >
> > hummm.... I wonder how nolapic knows you down to a single cpu.......
> > that is just an entirely strange relationship.
>
> Sorry, s/cpu/core/, but not sure if that makes a difference.

Ben, Tim,

See thread <http://marc.info/?t=118573271600006&r=1&w=2>. Short version:
nolapic_timer should fix things for the moment. Long term: some AMD kernel
code needs to be fixed up to deal with a broken local APIC.

Cheers,
--
Cal Peake

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