New F14-arm build os36 - Sugar in sync, device-tree!

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Lennert Buytenhek
<buytenh at wantstofly.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Niels de Vos wrote:
>
>> > >>     = There is a new schedulear/timer patch from Lennert -- mystery
>> > >> minutes-long hangs should be gone for real now.
>> > >
>> > > Do you have any references like a git-commit or discussion on a
>> > > mailinglist for this? I'd like to match this with some other ARM
>> > > hardware (non/OLPC) issues I have seen.
>> >
>> > There's a description of our problem at:
>> >
>> > http://dev.laptop.org/git/olpc-kernel/commit/?h=arm-3.0&id=b8923ed0809f29e53bd246153ca3a9e9367b4c56
>>
>> Nice description! As it's mach-mmp dependent, it's unlikely that I can
>> apply this for mx51 based systems. The information in the git-commit is
>> clear and I'll try to investigate if 'sporadic hangs' could be caused
>> due to missing events. (Which sounds sane, as it might happen when
>> the system is under high load.)
>
> Looking at arch/arm/plat-mxc/time.c and its *_set_next_event() functions,
> it appears to correctly handle the case where the timeout has already
> expired, so it's not likely that mx51 is suffering from the same problem.

Wow, thats a swift reply! Thanks for checking :)
Niels