CPU problems after 8.0-STABLE update

[Akephalos]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:06:56 +0300
Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:

> That's pretty obvious: RTC was not used for stat clock in that version; later
> version did try to use RTC and now Attilio has reverted the logic back to not
> use RTC unless explicitly requested.
> 
> What is not obvious is why your RTC doesn't work as expected.  I have no answer
> to that.
> 
> One thing that makes me suspicious is that HPET also doesn't seem to work on
> your system.  One very very wild guess is that IRQ8 might be actually driven by
> HPET, not RTC.  And our programming of HPET or RTC or both messes things up.
> 
> It would be interesting to see if disabling HPET (acpi_hpet) changes anything:
> debug.acpi.disabled="hpet"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andriy Gapon

Anytime. Please tell me what options and source version (date) should I use. I'm currently on the revision from 8 April an have machdep.lapic_allclocks set to 1.

-- 
Mihai