From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758806AbXGNHdU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751918AbXGNHdN (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:33:13 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:64716 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874AbXGNHdM (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:33:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:35:09 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] ICH Force HPET: ICH5 quirk to force detect enable In-reply-to: To: Venki Pallipadi Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel , Thomas Gleixner Message-id: <46987CAD.9020209@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Venki Pallipadi wrote: > > force_enable hpet for ICH5. > > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi > > --- > arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c | 2 > arch/i386/kernel/quirks.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > include/asm-i386/hpet.h | 2 > include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1 > 4 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > According to some reports, and a quick test I did on my laptop, this same method appears to work on the ICH4 chipset, even though the HPET is not documented on that chipset. Does Intel have any info on HPET support on ICH4 and whether there's any reason we should not force enable it there as well? -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/