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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 03:30:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> wrote:
 > >
 > > still running though..
 > 
 > Btw, did you ever boot with "tsc=reliable" as a kernel command line option?

I don't think so.

 > For the last night, can you see if you can just run it with that, and
 > things work?

Sure.

 > So I'm not even convinced that trying to debug some HPET issue is
 > really worth it. Especially if your machine is a preproduction board
 > from Intel.

Yeah, I agree. Even though it's strange that this only became a problem
this last few months for me, after over a year of abuse.

Hopefully the new year brings more trustworthy hardware.

	Dave