* Ingo Molnar wrote: > > It this is the way things gonna stay, so we'd probably want to drop > > this patch completely. Can you remove it cleanly, or it triggers > > dependency problems? > > i've dropped that patch and have respun tip/x86/time accordingly, > based on latest -git - and merged it into tip/master. Started testing > the result. got a spontaneous reboot bug upon bootup on a dual-core system booting a 32-bit x86 kernel - no message on the console. Config attached. as this is an integrated branch with a few fixups, i have pushed it out into tip/x86/time.broken2 - you can check that end result branch. (commit-ID: e8d0f9bf5a0) the same config boots fine with x86/time removed from the integration. (commit-ID: 887f98f62c8) Ingo