No usable event timer found on RPI2

[bob prohaska]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:34:43PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> I'm running into the same problem. I updated the source on a RPI2 today,
> build a new kernel (with modules), installed it, manually copied /boot/dtb/rpi2.dtb
> to /boot/msdos/ (which is mounted) and rebooted.
> The dtb files have the correct date, but the kernel panics. Do I need to copy more?
> 

FWIW, the manual copy of /boot/dtb/rpi2.dtb to /boot/msdos was enough to let my Pi2
reboot successfully. It's done so twice, recently to r297810. It's presently working
on 297909.

bob