Re: [2.6.0-mm2] PM timer still has problems

[Andrew Morton]

Karol Kozimor <sziwan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Booting with clock=pmtmr causes weird problems here (the system 
>  complains that clock override failed and the bogomips loop produces bogus
>  values). Below is the dmesg output as well as /proc/cpuinfo.
>  I have CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y and CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER=y.

Yup, thanks.  Several people have reported problems with the PM timer. 
Unfortunately, everyone's symptoms seem to be different.

I'm not sure whether we're dealing with BIOS problem, hardware problems, an
implementation bug or all of the above.

Arjan, was the PM time code in 2.4 widely deployed and/or reliable?

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