Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1: somewhat broken forced HPET on ICH5

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Sep 26 2007 - 02:43:30 EST


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:14 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:45:17PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 00:50 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > ich-force-hpet-ich5-quirk-to-force-detect-enable.patch
> > > is causing the following on Etch boot:
> > >
> > > [initscripts as usual]
> > > Setting system clock:
> > > [nothing happens for several seconds]
> > > select to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
> > > [initscripts as usual]
> > >
> > > Then clock is skewed for 3 hours (GMT/MSK difference).
> >
> > Can you please check, whether
> >
> > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc7/patch-2.6.23-rc7-hrt1.patch
> >
> > has the same problem ? It contains the hpet force enable patches as
> > well, but lacks the other crap^Wfeatures of -mm :)
>
> Yes, exactly same delay and clock skew.

Ok, stupid me. Did not look at your config snippet right away. Can you
please enable CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC ?

tglx


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