Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261538AbUKVPPm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:15:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262124AbUKVPPR (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:15:17 -0500 Received: from siaag1af.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.8]:61337 "EHLO siaag1af.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262161AbUKVPM5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:12:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:11:01 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: X86_64: Many Lost ticks To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: linux-kernel , Alan Cox , "kernel-stuff@comcast.net" , Andi Kleen Message-ID: <200411221012_MC3-1-8F2C-FF45@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 19 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > The thing is, without the IOAPIC enable it's essentially a no operation > since i8259 mode wouldn't use the pin information. ...until the user force-enables the IOAPIC. Then the timer pin overrides will be ignored as they should be. My goal was to fix bugs without altering default behavior, so anyone with broken IOAPIC mode would not suddenly see problems unless they changed a startup parameter. --Chuck Ebbert 20-Nov-04 23:58:19 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/