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SubjectRe: [patch] x86_64: warn if unable to configure apic main timer
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On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:17, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> When using the APIC main timer option on x86_64, sometimes it
> fails to complete its setup. Warn about this and suggest
> the user try 'disable_timer_pin_1' if their system clock runs
> too fast. Also, make printing of the exact result of APIC
> timer calibration require 'apic=verbose'.

This is not the right solution. Have to find out what's going
wrong and fix that.

I'm also experimenting with a different way to run the timer
because apicmaintimer doesn't work on a lot of laptops
because they have trouble running the APIC timer during c2.

-Andi
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