From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752703AbXIZGn2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:43:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750857AbXIZGnU (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:43:20 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:60240 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750826AbXIZGnT (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:43:19 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1: somewhat broken forced HPET on ICH5 From: Thomas Gleixner To: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070926091412.GA1752@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> References: <20070925205006.GA1766@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1190756717.17409.80.camel@chaos> <20070926091412.GA1752@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:43:17 +0200 Message-Id: <1190788997.23376.9.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 (2.12.0-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:14 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:45:17PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:50 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > ich-force-hpet-ich5-quirk-to-force-detect-enable.patch > > > is causing the following on Etch boot: > > > > > > [initscripts as usual] > > > Setting system clock: > > > [nothing happens for several seconds] > > > select to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out > > > [initscripts as usual] > > > > > > Then clock is skewed for 3 hours (GMT/MSK difference). > > > > Can you please check, whether > > > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc7/patch-2.6.23-rc7-hrt1.patch > > > > has the same problem ? It contains the hpet force enable patches as > > well, but lacks the other crap^Wfeatures of -mm :) > > Yes, exactly same delay and clock skew. Ok, stupid me. Did not look at your config snippet right away. Can you please enable CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC ? tglx