Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:10:46 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc8+ - first impressions
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:36:25 -0400
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Lats night I loaded 2.6.27-rc8-tip for the first time on my AMD Turion
> 64 laptop that is normally runs with Fedora distribution kernel.
> Compared to 2.6.25 the thing is broken - hdparm reports about 3MB/sec
> speed, fans are constantly on, everything seems sluggish.
> 
> Booting with hpet=force (HPET is disabled in BIOS) hangs the box
> somewhere in tty_init.

hpet=force is a "the kernel thinks it's not wise to use, but you think
better"... don't do that ;(


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