Re: [patch-mm 00/28] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V3

Andi Kleen
2007-06-28T09:47:49Z

On Thursday 28 June 2007 11:42:33 Andrew Morton wrote:

> > The patch set has been tested in the -hrt and -rt trees for quite a while
> > and the initial problems have been sorted out. Thanks to the folks from the
> > PowerTop project for testing and feedback.
>
> hrm. Looks like none of your testers have HPET_ID_LEGSUP hardware.

AFAIK it's only on IBM Summit. You have such a box?

> btw, if you want to know why I go on and on about crappy commenting, try to
> work out from the kernel source code what HPET_ID_LEGSUP is, and why it
> gets special treatment. It is not possible. This is not maintainable
> code.

We have a reference somewhere to the HPET spec.

-Andi