On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:59:20 PST, George Anzinger said: > allows the PIT to be the "gold standard" in time that it is designed to be. The > wake up interrupt, then needs to come from an independent timer. My patch > requires a local APIC for this. Patch is available at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Foo. and me with a BIOS-borked LAPIC. Anybody have helpful hints on how to get Dell to fix a laptop BIOS(*), or are you all too busy dying of hysterical laughter? Dell Latitude C840, running bios A13 (most recent). I *know* it was borked around A08, and the bios release notes haven't mentioned fixing it. I wonder if it's worth re-checking anyhow....
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