From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755983AbaC0LDB (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:03:01 -0400 Received: from dehamd003.servertools24.de ([31.47.254.18]:33089 "EHLO dehamd003.servertools24.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755415AbaC0LDA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:03:00 -0400 X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network X-No-Relay: not in my network Message-ID: <53340561.4050708@ladisch.de> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:02:57 +0100 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Feng Tang , tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: hpet: Don't default CONFIG_HPET_TIMER to be y for X86_64 References: <1395906309-7519-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1395906309-7519-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Feng Tang wrote: > On many new phone/tablet platforms like Baytrail/Merrifield etc, > the HPET are either defeatured or has some problem to be used > as a reliable timer. As these platforms also have X86_64, we > should not make HPET_TIMER default y for all X86_64. The help text still says: | You can safely choose Y here. [...] | Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer. Are these statements still true for those platforms? Regards, Clemens