On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:44:11AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>
>
> On 11.07.2007 02:53, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:07:05AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > [...]
> > actually x86-64 tickless has been in rawhide about 2 weeks, and is now
> > in this rebase for FC6/F7. Whether we roll with it for a proper update
> > depends on how it fares during it's trial in updates-testing.
> > So far the forced-hpet part was the only bit that's caused trouble
> > afaics, so with that disabled, it should be (hopefully) boring.
>
> Well, for me and dragoran it's still causing trouble *afaics*; look
> closer at
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346
>
> Problems start to appear when the hpet stuff for x86_64 went it, and did
> not vanish when you disabled the forced-hpet for some of the recent
> ICH's from Intel (which afaics [would need the lspci data to be sure]
> are in both our machines).
>
> /me will later update the bug with the lspci output when I'm in front of
> my laptop again.
Yeah, I'm picking over that bug now. Will try and find a box I can
reproduce this on tomorrow.
, which
is a Dell Precision 470 workstation w/an ICH5 chipset.
--
Jarod Wilson
jwilson(a)redhat.com