Re: [PATCH] Revert commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 12:15:24 EST


On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085
> > (x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400)
> >
> > Since ATI/AMD decided not to support HPET on SB4xx it doesn't
> > make sense to enable this unsupported feature.
> > (I was not aware of this when submitting the quirk.)
> >
> > If a system with SB4xx chipset provides an ACPI HPET table and does
> > not boot, "nohpet" should be used as kernel parameter.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx>
>
> applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Andreas. I guess a system broke due to
> this commit?

Hmm, why do we remove something which needs to be force enabled by the
user anyway ?

Is the HPET on these systems not working at all so the force enable
code is useless ?

Thanks,

tglx
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