Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86_64 ioapic: Improve the heuristics for when check_timer fails.

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Lu, Yinghai" <yinghai.lu@xxxxxxx> writes:

>>So that doesn't invalidate the generic test.  I'm going to go dig
>>out what little information I have and see if I can stair at the
>>register definition.
>
> Someone said we can that info about that reg in Kernel. And only
> firmware can use that.

We can do all kinds of things when firmware gets it wrong, and in this
case I just want a deeper understanding.  Once I understand that mess
I will decide what to do about it.

Eric
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