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LKML: Erwin Rol: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Display HPET timer option
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If the nmi watchdog is off it just hangs for ever. <br />> <br />> Can you give details on the machine? lspci, dmidecode, acpidmp output,<br />> boot log from the hang case?<br />> <br />> Then perhaps it can be blacklisted or the failure otherwise avoided.<br />> <br />> [Looks like I finally need to add DMI decode support to x86-64 too :-/]<br />> <br />> -Andi<br />> <br />> <br />[unhandled content-type:application/x-gzip]</pre></td><td width="32" rowspan="2" class="c" valign="top"><img src="/images/icornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"> 聽 </td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="bottom">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerl.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="\" /></td><td class="c">聽</td><td class="c" valign="bottom" style="padding-bottom: 0px"><img src="/images/bcornerr.gif" width="32" height="32" alt="/" /></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" colspan="2"> 聽 </td><td class="lm">Last update: 2005-12-08 16:25 聽聽 [from the cache]<br />漏2003-2020 <a href="http://blog.jasper.es/"><span itemprop="editor">Jasper Spaans</span></a>|hosted at <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9a8e99d24cf9">Digital Ocean</a> and my Meterkast|<a href="http://blog.jasper.es/categories.html#lkml-ref">Read the blog</a></td><td>聽</td></tr></table><script language="javascript" src="/js/styleswitcher.js" type="text/javascript"></script></body></html>