Re: [Xen-devel] why are deep cstates disabled?

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/10/2009 18:03, "Dan Magenheimer" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My D630 has no HPET... or at least there is no indication
> in the BIOS menu that there is an HPET.

I think you do, since cpuidle_disable_deep_cstate() is called from
handle_rtc_once(), which gets set up as a hook by hpet_broadcast_init(),
which only gets that far If it has managed to initialise an HPET.

> I tried setting "hpetbroadcast" and dom0 boot fails.

Err.. What happens?

> Is there any way to get C3 working on my box or am
> I out of luck?

You could try commenting out function disable_pit_irq() and its __initcall()
invocation. This should cause fallback to pit_broadcast mode. It's a
completely different non-HPET-related approach that you could try.

 -- Keir



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