Re: 2.6.27-rc5 doesn't boot on a Pavilion laptop

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 15:09:18 EST


On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:40:55PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > I now see why this is happening and it is happening only on systems
> > with a fast HPET. Your's running 25MHz, so the delta is only 1.92
> > usec. I was staring at lots of those bugreports without noticing the
> > frequency.
> >
> > Sigh. The idea to take a fixed number of HPET cycles as the minimum
> > was not really brilliant it seems.
> >
> > Does the patch below help ? Keep the debug patch applied, as we can
> > see whether the check triggers or not.
>
> Works for me... I'm just got only second backtrace after mounting rootfs.
> Looks like something is broken with git tree.

Is the box continuing to work after that warning/backtrace ? This is
still on the x86 git tree, right ? Please verify whether mainline
(linus git tree) has the same problem.

Thanks,

tglx


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