kernel 2.6.27 problems booting

[Peter Reed]

On Saturday 15 November 2008 10:23:09 pm Waleed Harbi wrote:
> -The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware is the future replacement
> -for the 8254 and Real Time Clock (RTC) periodic timer functionality.
> -Each HPET can have up to 32 timers.  It is possible to configure the
> -first two timers as legacy replacements for 8254 and RTC periodic timers.
> -A specification done by Intel and Microsoft can be found at
> -<http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/hpetspec.htm>.
>
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/27-git8/Documentation/hpet.txt
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPET
>

Thanks for the information, however the intel link is dead. The bugzilla, 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418,  link does say something 
about the fact that it is a timer seems to be a problem specifically on amd 
processors, although it does not affect my desktop computer but only my 
laptop which is a newer generation of amd processor.  If you read the 
bugzilla entry it seems to be fixed in the 2.6.27-5 kernel, so a permanent 
solution is on the way.  Thanks again.

Peter