Re: [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space

[Ingo Molnar]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:06 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> Patchset enables force detection of HPET, when it is not listed by
> BIOS.
> and enables use of HPET as a event source. HPET timers
> configures in stamdard interrupt mode can be used as dependable per
> CPU timer
> on laptops that are known to have LAPIC stoppage with ACPI C3 state.

(sorry about the belated reply)

cool patchset! I suspect the most logical place to start this would be
on upstream 32-bit, which has the hpet clockevents changes already.
Plus the i386 and x86_64 hpet code should be unified.

	Ingo

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