Chris, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > Thomas - > > I hope that, from at least my perspective, your question is rhetorical.
Yeah. The non rhetorical one was directed to Jiri. :) > I am fully willing to publicly admit that I don't have a clue. About > much of anything. I will even admit that until prompted by Jiri > yesterday I had never even heard of the nohpet directive for the boot > line. No problem. At the moment I'm equally clueless :) > I am willing to do whatever I can to help isolate and or resolve this > issue, but to do so I need one of you experts to firmly grab hold of > some portion of my anatomy and guide me in the right direction. Can you please apply the following patch, boot w/o nohpet and provide the dmesg output ? Thanks, tglx diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c index 429d084..4e98241 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -375,8 +375,10 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) { unsigned long id; - if (!is_hpet_capable()) + if (!is_hpet_capable()) { + printk(KERN_INFO "HPET not available\n"); return 0; + } hpet_set_mapping(); @@ -392,6 +394,7 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) * information and the number of channels */ id = hpet_readl(HPET_ID); + printk(KERN_INFO "HPET available. ID = %lx\n", id); #ifdef CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC /* @@ -412,6 +415,7 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) return 0; out_nohpet: + printk(KERN_INFO "HPET disabled\n"); hpet_clear_mapping(); boot_hpet_disable = 1; return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/