From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dell BIOS and HPET timer support
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:02:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050608220214.GE21704@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e47339105060813115d01282@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:11:39PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> After several communications with Dell support I have determined that
> most Dell BIOSs don't include the ACPI entry for the HPET timer. The
> official reason for this is that no version of Windows uses the HPET
> and adding the ACPI entry might cause compatibility problems.
What platform/BIOS version please? PowerEdge x8xx servers certainly
do have HPET enabled in their ACPI tables.
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-08 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-08 20:11 Dell BIOS and HPET timer support Jon Smirl
2005-06-08 22:02 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2005-06-08 22:34 ` Jon Smirl
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2005-06-08 22:55 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-06-09 0:34 ` Jon Smirl
2005-06-09 0:57 ` Lee Revell
2005-06-09 1:38 ` Jon Smirl
2005-06-09 2:06 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-06-09 2:09 ` Jon Smirl
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