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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:46:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175248003.6157.43.camel@earth4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070222170616.A27455@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:06 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote:
> Patchset enables force detection of HPET, when it is not listed by
> BIOS.
> and enables use of HPET as a event source. HPET timers
> configures in stamdard interrupt mode can be used as dependable per
> CPU timer
> on laptops that are known to have LAPIC stoppage with ACPI C3 state.

(sorry about the belated reply)

cool patchset! I suspect the most logical place to start this would be
on upstream 32-bit, which has the hpet clockevents changes already.
Plus the i386 and x86_64 hpet code should be unified.

	Ingo


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-30  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-23  1:06 [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space Venkatesh Pallipadi
2007-03-30  9:46 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-03-30 13:36   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-30 16:50 Nicolas Mailhot
2007-03-30 16:59 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-03-30 17:22   ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-03-30 22:09 Mikko Tiihonen
2007-03-30 22:38 ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-03-31  8:00   ` Mikko Tiihonen
2007-03-31 10:37   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-03-31 11:36     ` Nicolas Mailhot
2007-03-31 15:00       ` Mikko Tiihonen

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