Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: fix keeping track of AMD C1E

[Borislav Petkov]

From: Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:22:39PM -0400

> On 15.07.2010, Michal Schmidt wrote: 
> 
> > This suggests that another way to fix my problem would be this (tested):
> [....]
> 
> Did apply this patch to stock 2.6.35-rc5, it does _not_ fix my C1E problem.
> It takes a lot of key pressing in the boot process to get the system up,
> just as it has been before.

Ok, come to think of it, there are a couple of things you could also test:

First of all, there's this HPET readback on ATI chipsets which wasn't in
your testing kernel and it would be a good thing to test it - I'm little
sceptical but it fixes the same symptoms for another user so it wouldn't
hurt. You'll have to apply the following patches:

1. The latest fix from Michal (adding it here for completeness):

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