From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>,
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>,
George Anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
albert@users.sourceforge.net,
Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
keith maanthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>,
Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com>, Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>,
mahuja@us.ibm.com, Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
donf@us.ibm.com, mpm@selenic.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1)
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:32:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050606133226.GA1302@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050606092159.GZ23831@wotan.suse.de>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:21:59AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > IIRC (from the comment above) several chipsets suffer from this
> > inconsistency, namely the widely used PIIX4(E) and ICH(4 only? or also other
> > ICH-ones?). Therefore, we'd need at least some sort of boot-time check to
> > decide which method to use... and based on the method, we can adjust the
> > priority maybe?
>
> At least on x86-64 there are no ICH4s or PIIX4Es. Actually I think
> there was one early prototype machine from Intel with ICH4, but I am willing
> to ignore these. So please dont do any such things on the x86-64 version.
>
> Also didnt ICH4 already have HPET? it might not be enabled on many
> boxes, but given the chip datasheet one can write enable code to
> fix that.
I believe the HPET is implemented in the northbridge (MCH) in Intel
systems.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-06 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-02 18:27 [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 arch specific changes (v. B1) Parag Warudkar
2005-06-02 18:39 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2005-06-02 23:05 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-02 23:20 ` john stultz
2005-06-02 23:33 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-02 23:50 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-03 7:05 ` Ulrich Windl
2005-06-03 15:24 ` john stultz
2005-06-05 17:05 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-06-06 3:04 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-06 3:14 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-06-10 0:48 ` George Anzinger
2005-06-06 9:21 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-06 9:24 ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-06-06 9:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-06 13:32 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-06-06 22:53 ` john stultz
2005-06-03 16:30 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-03 18:27 ` john stultz
2005-06-03 19:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-03 19:21 ` john stultz
2005-06-05 11:27 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-06 22:51 ` john stultz
2005-06-04 18:40 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-05 11:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-05 14:15 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-05 20:51 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-05 21:41 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-05 22:13 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-06 9:29 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-06 11:46 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-08 13:51 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-09 1:47 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-09 2:12 ` john stultz
2005-06-09 2:42 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-09 14:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-03 13:32 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-02 18:40 ` john stultz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-02 18:51 Parag Warudkar
2005-06-01 23:09 [PATCH 1/4] new timeofday core subsystem " john stultz
2005-06-01 23:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] new timeofday i386 arch specific changes " john stultz
2005-06-01 23:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] new timeofday x86-64 " john stultz
2005-06-02 0:37 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-06-02 17:34 ` john stultz
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