New products based on Intel Apollo Lake are appearing where the HPET is not present in ACPI, and the legacy 8254 PIT is "gated" by default in the BIOS setup menu.
This leads an early boot "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" kernel panic on a black screen (before the framebuffer is initialized). Avoid the IO-APIC IRQ0 timer manipulation & verification on platforms where the legacy IRQ0 timer has been determined as unavailable. This fixes boot on Connex L1430 and Scope SN116PYA with default BIOS settings. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dr...@endlessm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAD8Lp45fedoPLnK=umuhhtkjy5u2h04sykrx3u+m04u6fpv...@mail.gmail.com --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c index ae46da48c07b..2d29c62abbcb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c @@ -2243,7 +2243,7 @@ void __init setup_IO_APIC(void) sync_Arb_IDs(); setup_IO_APIC_irqs(); init_IO_APIC_traps(); - if (nr_legacy_irqs()) + if (global_clock_event && nr_legacy_irqs()) check_timer(); ioapic_initialized = 1; -- 2.19.1
