Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was: Re: hpet timers gone?

Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was: Re: hpet timers gone?

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Hello,

Who can help me get this minor patch into the kernel?

Kind regards,
Udo

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT  was: Re: hpet
timers gone?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:15:08 +0200
From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On 2010-09-14 01:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> So what else can I do to enable HPET?
> 
> At this point, not much, unless you can track down the chipset
> information that would allow us to implement force enabling HPET on
> that chipset..

Signed-off-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:14.639710309 +0200
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:06.095280815 +0200
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@
 			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
 DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237,
 			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
+DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700,
+			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);

 static void ati_force_hpet_resume(void)
 {

Patch does make hpet appear on VIA Epia LT (CX700M2 chipset) with
hpet=force on kernel commandline.


Udo

Re: Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was: Re: hpet timers gone?

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Who can help me get this minor patch into the kernel?

You need to CC these folks:
konrad@phenom:~/work/linux$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c 
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
x86@kernel.org
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Which I just did on your e-mail.

> 
> Kind regards,
> Udo
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT  was: Re: hpet
> timers gone?
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:15:08 +0200
> From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
> To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> On 2010-09-14 01:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >> So what else can I do to enable HPET?
> > 
> > At this point, not much, unless you can track down the chipset
> > information that would allow us to implement force enabling HPET on
> > that chipset..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl>
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:14.639710309 +0200
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:06.095280815 +0200
> @@ -344,6 +344,8 @@
>  			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
>  DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237,
>  			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700,
> +			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> 
>  static void ati_force_hpet_resume(void)
>  {
> 
> Patch does make hpet appear on VIA Epia LT (CX700M2 chipset) with
> hpet=force on kernel commandline.
> 
> 
> Udo
> 
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Re: Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was: Re: hpet timers gone?

[Thomas Gleixner]

B1;2401;0cOn Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Who can help me get this minor patch into the kernel?
> 
> You need to CC these folks:
> konrad@phenom:~/work/linux$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c 
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> x86@kernel.org
> Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
> Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Which I just did on your e-mail.

6 days too late. See:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1276240

It's queued for 2.6.37

Thanks,

	tglx