So then the PIT isn't going to work on that machine. Do you have HPET?
Because if so, the most obvious choice would be to say:
- on old machines, the PIT is likely more reliable than PM_TIMER
- on new machines, the HPET is likely more reliable than PIT
and there's actually a fairly obvious place to distinguish between old and
new: if ti has a HPET, consider it a new one.
But that just means that there's never any reason to use PM_TIMER anyway,
and the proper patch would probably be to just ignore it. No?
Linus
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