linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:25:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:	rct@...rkin.frus.com (Bob Tracy)
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	johnstul@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This fix from John Stultz is still missing:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/287
> 
> It's in Andrews queue already and waits to be sent to you.

In summary, that fix is a workaround to allow the acpi_pm clocksource
to be selected instead of the pit clocksource, thereby allowing my
Dell laptop with the PIIX4 bug to boot.  Other apic, clocksource, etc.
patches that were included in -rc5 fixed the problem that caused the
boot process to hang when the pit clocksource was selected, as I
suspected would be the case :-).

Per John's message in the above URL, while the fix is no longer needed
for allowing the laptop to boot, it's probably still "a good thing" to
allow a better clocksource to be selected.

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