time issues

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:27:27PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> By the way, is TIMER_USE_1 safe for anyone? Only tested with SMP, but:

Well, it helps in some settings. The problem is that either the BIOS or
some chipset components may be messing with either the second or the third
timer, and that differs between machines.

But your report suggest that we either have a APIC problem here or it is
not safe the use as default.

Joerg