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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:58:11PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the report.
> I see this:
> RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>
> 
> which means basically atrtc has been disabled and thus profhz and
> stathz fellback. The other traces I got are someway similar (I see
> values of hz which go in this direction).

Yep, I see the same thing here, RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery>.

> What needs to happen is that, if atrtc is not available apic should be
> choosen actually.
> I will try to make a patch very soon.

Sounds good, thanks for looking into it for us all.


				Richard