Yea. My rough guess is that the BIOS is somehow sensitive to how the
CMOS RTC is touched.
Does disabling CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC change the behavior?
But how do I do it? :-)
I have not found a way to disable it in "menuconfig". If I comment it
out manually in .config, it is automatically set back to "y" as soon as
compilation starts ...
Good point. I forgot on x86_64 you can't disable HPET_TIMER.
Could you then use the following patch (and run make oldconfig before
building).
thanks
-john
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index cb9a104..77b5273 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ config HPET_TIMER
Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
config HPET_EMULATE_RTC
- def_bool y
+ def_bool n
depends on HPET_TIMER&& (RTC=y || RTC=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=m || RTC_DRV_CMOS=y)
config APB_TIMER