Re: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501

H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14T18:09:17Z

On 02/14/2014 10:06 AM, Conrad Kostecki wrote:
>
> Hm. I am not. The Soekris is my only device with an E6xx CPU. This one is special, as Soekris does not implement ACPI.
> I don't know, how other E6xx systems do work. I guess, there will have ACPI. There seem not to be many out there.
> This patch is now running for about six months without any problems for me.
>
> I was also searching for some other systems. I found here only one manual.
> There are at least the same vendor/device id shown, as used also in Soekris.
> -> http://www.ekf.de/p/pc2/pc2_ug.pdf
>
> Is there maybe any possibility to check for the specific Soekris model? At least MPTABLE identifies the Soekris:
> [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: OEM ID: Soekris
> [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: Product ID: net6501
> [ 0.000000] MPTABLE: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
>

Does it have DMI?

-hpa