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From: "Arun Thomas" <arun.thomas@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: E6850 has an 8+ minute delay during boot
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:00:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a8cbed90712141600l1a867da0uc7027e502575a7a6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4762D322.2060101@zytor.com>

On Dec 14, 2007 2:01 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > The problem is caused by an SMI during the calibration routine. We
> > really need to come up with a solid solution which does not rely on
> > the periodic timer coming in, when there is something else (HPET,
> > pm_timer) available.
>
> How long is the SMI?

Is there some instrumentation code somewhere which would allow me to
determine this? If not, can you give me some hints on where to add the
instrumentation code?

Thanks,
Arun

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-15  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14  9:10 Arun Thomas
2007-12-14  9:53 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 10:01   ` Arun Thomas
2007-12-14 10:18     ` Jiri Slaby
2007-12-14 10:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-12-14 11:15         ` Arun Thomas
2007-12-14 14:44         ` Mark Lord
2007-12-14 19:01         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-15  0:00           ` Arun Thomas [this message]
2007-12-15  0:38             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-14 14:38 ` Mark Lord
2007-12-15  6:07 ` Len Brown
2007-12-16  5:38   ` Arun Thomas

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