linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD Phenom-II processor

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Message-ID: <499EF662.7010001@cfl.rr.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:28:50 -0500
From:	Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@....rr.com>
To:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Can't boot a (HZ = 1000) kernel using an AMD Phenom-II
 processor

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:40:31PM -0500, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> 
>> ACPI: HPET id: 0x10b9a201 base: 0xfed00000
> 
>   <snip>
> 
>> hpet: hpet_enable(834):
>> hpet: ID: 43538301, PERIOD: 429b17e
> 
> 
> This means that your BIOS could be bogus.
> Obviously ACPI HPET table contains different information about
> your HPET configuration than the HPET registers are showing.
> 
> This means that other chipset configuration (e.g. ACPI tables) could
> also be wrong.
> 
> To confirm this please provide us output of
> 
> # xxd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/HPET

markh@...ley:~> xxd /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/HPET
0000000: 4850 4554 3800 0000 0101 5258 3738 3020  HPET8.....RX780
0000010: 4157 5244 4143 5049 312e 3042 4157 5244  AWRDACPI1.0BAWRD
0000020: 9800 0000 01a2 b910 0000 0000 0000 d0fe  ................
0000030: 0000 0000 0010 0000

Mark
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