From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752507Ab0IMOwx (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:52:53 -0400 Received: from pindarots.xs4all.nl ([80.101.128.228]:57448 "EHLO pindarots.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949Ab0IMOww (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:52:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8E3ABF.90309@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:52:47 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Hancock , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hpet timers gone? References: <4BFA52C3.4080006@xs4all.nl> <20100526120236.4a849b5b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4C021507.6020703@xs4all.nl> <4C02B3AB.3040405@gmail.com> <4C0324B8.8070304@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2010-05-31 06:00, Robert Hancock wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >> On 2010-05-30 20:51, Robert Hancock wrote: >>> On 05/30/2010 01:34 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >>>> The board has VIA C7 CPU and VIA CX700M2 Unified Digital Media IGP >>>> chipset which supports HPET. >>>> >>>> Can it be that the kernel lacks support for CX700 hpet? >>>> Or is it a matter of getting the BIOS upgrade to work? >>> >>> Your current BIOS doesn't provide an HPET ACPI table, which is the way >>> it's supposed to indicate support. The kernel only supports >>> force-enabling HPET on VIA for VT8235 and VT8237. >> >> So yes, I should try the BIOS upgrade first? > > If they did add an HPET table entry, it should help, yes.. Is there a workaround? VIA was not so helpfull: the bios flash tool they have on the site does not recognise the board as a VIA board. Also they state the latest BIOS will not add HPET to ACPI table. So what else can I do to enable HPET? Kind regards, Udo