Re: Regression in 2.6.27 caused by commit bfc0f59

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > Umm. Which one. The 32-bit or the 64-bit?
> 
> The 32 bit version.

So then the PIT isn't going to work on that machine. Do you have HPET?

Because if so, the most obvious choice would be to say:

 - on old machines, the PIT is likely more reliable than PM_TIMER

 - on new machines, the HPET is likely more reliable than PIT

and there's actually a fairly obvious place to distinguish between old and 
new: if ti has a HPET, consider it a new one.

But that just means that there's never any reason to use PM_TIMER anyway, 
and the proper patch would probably be to just ignore it. No?

		Linus
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