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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: native HPET probe required
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:27:45 -0400
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To: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

Venki,
I think that the confirmation from Dell in this bug report
is justification enough for you to push native HPET probing
and for Linux to not rely on ACPI to enumerate the HPET.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4255

-Len