Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751724AbVLAVGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:06:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751730AbVLAVGq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:06:46 -0500 Received: from natfrord.rzone.de ([81.169.145.161]:6578 "EHLO natfrord.rzone.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751724AbVLAVGp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:06:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option From: Erwin Rol To: Andi Kleen Cc: Linux Kernel In-Reply-To: <20051201204339.GC997@wotan.suse.de> References: <20051201204339.GC997@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:06:37 +0100 Message-Id: <1133471197.3604.3.camel@xpc.home.erwinrol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 (2.4.1-8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 986 Lines: 31 On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:43 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:30:03PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > > > > > > Currently the HPET timer option isn't visible in menuconfig. > > > > > > Do you want it to? > > > > > > Why would you ever compile it out? > > > > For timer testing purposes i sometimes would like not to use the HPET. > > Would a runtime switch be preferred? > > nohpet already exists. > And luckily it does cause without "nohpet" i can't boot my shuttle ST20G5, the NMI watchdog kills it because ti hangs when initializing the hpet. If the nmi watchdog is off it just hangs for ever. - Erwin - 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/