Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758302AbYBGQlr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:41:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754293AbYBGQlj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:41:39 -0500 Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.96]:39547 "EHLO QMTA09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbYBGQlj (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:41:39 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=2HmMTTs1NPSFH2WIN6IA:9 a=Pc6e1a24mgamMXwCi-8uZqxWGm8A:4 a=XF7b4UCPwd8A:10 Subject: Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue? From: Chris Holvenstot To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jiri Kosina , Kernel , Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: References: <1202302978.9058.13.camel@popeye> <1202305740.9058.22.camel@popeye> <1202318666.6406.13.camel@popeye> <1202381094.6179.0.camel@popeye> <1202396868.6087.8.camel@popeye> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:45:04 -0600 Message-Id: <1202402704.6087.12.camel@popeye> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2033 Lines: 63 Thomas - I hope that, from at least my perspective, your question is rhetorical. I am fully willing to publicly admit that I don't have a clue. About much of anything. I will even admit that until prompted by Jiri yesterday I had never even heard of the nohpet directive for the boot line. I am willing to do whatever I can to help isolate and or resolve this issue, but to do so I need one of you experts to firmly grab hold of some portion of my anatomy and guide me in the right direction. Chris On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:13 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > > > OK - I think that this is wat you are looking for. If there is > > anything else I can proivde or if I have mucked up this simple cut and > > paste just let me know. > > > > /proc/timer_list after a "standard" boot up: > > Tick Device: mode: 1 > > Clock Event Device: pit > > > /proc/timer_list after a boot with nohpet > > Tick Device: mode: 1 > > Clock Event Device: pit > > Both use PIT, so no hpet involved > > > The dmesg output after a "standard" boot: > > > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=4dc2e6b0-c980-418b-8ad0-98358e7ec47d ro quiet splash > > [ 0.368027] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. > > > > The dmesg output after a boot with "nohpet" > > > [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=4dc2e6b0-c980-418b-8ad0-98358e7ec47d ro quiet splash nohpet > > [ 0.368027] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. > > Both boots use acpi_pm clocksource and there is nowhere a sign of HPET > in the logs except the "nohpet" on the command line. > > /me is confused > > How does "nohpet" on the command line influence the behaviour, when > there is no hpet available at all. > > Thanks, > tglx > > -- 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/