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Subject: Re: Dell BIOS and HPET timer support
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 20:34 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 6/8/05, Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
> > But, this will not affect normal kernel functioning. This will only
> > affect is someone wants to use /dev/hpet interface.
> 
> I tried the little demo program in Documentation/hpet.txt It seems to work fine.
> 
> Still not sure what 0ns tick signifies. This is an Intel ICH5 chipset.
> 

Check the source, it's self-explanatory.  See hpet_alloc().

Lee