2.6.22 rebase.

[dragoran]

dragoran wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:56:41AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>>  > Hi.
>>  >  > On Thursday 12 July 2007 02:25:45 Dave Jones wrote:
>>  > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:45:13AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>  > >  > On 07/11/2007 01:23 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>  > >  > >  > 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.
>>  > >  >  > >  > The Fedora 6 kernel doesn't boot either, at least on 
>> a Dell Workstation
>>  > >  > 490, without "nohpet".
>>  > >  > > Lets just drop the 64bit tickless stuff for now, it clearly 
>> isn't baked,
>>  > > and isn't going to get much better by the end of the week (which 
>> I want
>>  > > to get something into updates-testing by).
>>  > >  >  > Do you (or does anyone else) know if Thomas is aware of 
>> these issues? I  > haven't noticed anything on LKML.
>>
>> I've been talking with him.  The hpet related stuff is on hold though
>> until Venki gets back from vacation.
>>     
> tglx fixed the nohpet bug see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247346
>
> So can we merge back hrtimers + this patch and give it another try?
>
and also one more idea: we could also merge back the force hpet patches. 
maybe there where just affected by this bug (hpet hang).