Bug#309909: acpi + rtc causes hang on debian boot

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

Hello,

I see that you have reported this bug to bugzilla.kernel.org as 4904 [0]. 
The solution which has been committed to git on August 4th involves 
setting the value of HPET_EMULATE_RTC to yes if HPET_TIMER and RTC are 
configured. I guess we could have enabled that too, however currently 
HPET_EMULATE_RTC is only going to be set if RTC is compiled in:

 config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
	bool
 	depends on HPET_TIMER && RTC=y
	default y

This is a problem since in Debian RTC is traditionally compiled as a 
module and changing it to be built-in now seems as a rather intrusive 
change. I'll try post a follow-up to the bug asking for opinions of 
kernel developers and Debian kernel team on how to resolve this.

[0] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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