[ag-automation] Latest Stable OSADL-Kernel not SMP-safe ?

[Robert Schwebel]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:26:54AM +0200, Claus Gindhart wrote:
> The kernel 2.6.24.7-rt17 has an additional problem, which i didnt
> mention in the last mail. This kernel sporadically hangs up at kernel
> boot during the ACPI initialization (does not appear, if acpi=off
> option is added to the command line) This problem disappeared by
> updating to 2.6.24.7-rt21

PC hardware timers are a source for all kinds of weird problems. Did you
run

	http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/

on your board, in order to make sure your BIOS is not broken?

rsc
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