From 14d98cad82b78956957e95567b8b5fb38ec5859f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:27:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Add option to disable timer check This works around the too fast timer seen on some ATI boards. I don't feel confident enough about it yet to enable it by default, but give users the option. Patch and debugging from Christopher Allen Wing , with minor tweaks (renamed the option and documented it) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/x86_64') diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt index 44b6eea60ece..b9e6be00cadf 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ APICs noapictimer Don't set up the APIC timer + no_timer_check Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around + problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards. + Early Console syntax: earlyprintk=vga -- cgit v1.2.2