From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [3/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:59:26 -0700 Message-ID: <200703281359.29009.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <200703281238.57811.david-b@pacbell.net> <200703282220.00199.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200703282220.00199.maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Maxim Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds , Jeff Chua , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , Jens Axboe , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Thomas Gleixner , jgarzik@pobox.com, Andrew Morton List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 28 March 2007 1:19 pm, Maxim wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 21:38:55 David Brownell wrote: > > > > Also, making HPET use the legacy mode seems like a step backwards. > It is not 'legacy' mode, > It is a legacy replacement mode. Typo, sorry. > It this mode HPET takes over IRQ0 and IRQ 8 and provides this way > replacement for PIT and RTC periodic function It's that RTC periodic thing that bothers me, I don't mind about the PIT. Remember that IRQ8 is also used for other RTC functions. Now, if there were a way to tell rtc-cmos that HPET is active, and arrange some kind of handshake ... that would be different. - Dave