Re: i386 HPET code

[Andi Kleen]

> Basically I am thinking of something like this will be a good generic solution
> in place of simple two writes.
> 
> for (i = 0 ; i <some number for max retries>; i++) {
> 	hpet_writel(hpet_tick, HPET_T0_CMP);
> 	if (hpet_tick == hpet_readl(hpet_tick, HPET_T0_CMP))
> 		break;
> }

Makes sense. There were so many bugs in PIT timer access over time,
it would be probably a miracle if the hardware engineers got all
the HPET implementations right ;-) 

If you do a fix like this please change x86-64 too.

-Andi

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