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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 16:37:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080509163731.5f851bec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509094911.GG5023@alberich.amd.com>

On Fri, 9 May 2008 11:49:11 +0200
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote:

> x86: enable hpet=force for ATI SB400

Sigh.

> Add quirk to allow forced usage of HPET on ATI SB400.
> I stumbled over machines where HPET is enabled but not reported
> by BIOS.

Is there no way in which we can probe for or identify this condition,
rather than hoping that the user will find out about this boot option?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-09 23:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-09  9:49 [PATCH] x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400 Andreas Herrmann
2008-05-09 23:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-09 23:42   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-09 23:55     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-10  0:02       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-10 20:40       ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-11  3:02       ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-11  9:03         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-06-24 16:00           ` Andreas Herrmann
2008-07-04 18:55           ` Andreas Herrmann

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