From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262147AbVFHWel (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:34:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262197AbVFHWek (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:34:40 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.207]:49742 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262147AbVFHWea convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:34:30 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LbZPKSgfGAKBAh0S9pHg6AzqiOGOyVRSP0d9oZEwQm9xwT2npN9KCnvmfMPTf4t7C1NWJDKFgBdmv/3A3sK4pcGC86K97CER9MRozKELR1QwX01dFo/JjwPzq1pZAax0EyflNTddT2EEs8pTt2qpkHGCGHJYQmg9w8VX6/XNX6s= Message-ID: <9e47339105060815343eaa6c31@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 18:34:24 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: Dell BIOS and HPET timer support Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <20050608220214.GE21704@lists.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <9e47339105060813115d01282@mail.gmail.com> <20050608220214.GE21704@lists.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/8/05, Matt Domsch wrote: > 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. All Dell PE400SC, Dim8300, Precision360 for sure. From my talk with them none of the desktops have it enabled. They acknowledge that it is on for some server boxes but not for most other systems. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com