From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: hpet: Don't default CONFIG_HPET_TIMER to be y for X86_64
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:02:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53340561.4050708@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1395906309-7519-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com>
Feng Tang wrote:
> On many new phone/tablet platforms like Baytrail/Merrifield etc,
> the HPET are either defeatured or has some problem to be used
> as a reliable timer. As these platforms also have X86_64, we
> should not make HPET_TIMER default y for all X86_64.
The help text still says:
| You can safely choose Y here. [...]
| Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
Are these statements still true for those platforms?
Regards,
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-27 7:45 [PATCH] x86: hpet: Don't default CONFIG_HPET_TIMER to be y for X86_64 Feng Tang
2014-03-27 11:02 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2014-03-27 19:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 21:27 ` John Stultz
2014-03-27 21:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-27 21:52 ` John Stultz
2014-03-28 2:43 ` Feng Tang
2014-03-28 2:48 ` Feng Tang
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