Re: 2.6.7-bk way too fast

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 02:57:23 EST


On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:23 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> x86-64 has a different HPET driver than i386. And HPET is only used when
> present in the machine (so far only AMD chipsets), _and_ reported by the
> ACPI BIOS. Which is rather uncommon.

If we know which chipsets have it, why would we refrain from using it
just because the BIOS doesn't report it?

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dwmw2

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