From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262224AbVFIAgC (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:36:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262217AbVFIAez (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:34:55 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]:52589 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262224AbVFIAei convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:34:38 -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=gcptyTnILtGJqHW1tLNxrQzLyebiOxqtFyquKJaNVAESxsRCO2zrFxmDzKtZTcoeiI/armkZ7KjO8HsNBhupMh4cgqa47OGDkULLACj7hsy19rMNpMTMIUwuEK839eRrL53ZDAPcZLKxx1LQ5G9ueU2+V4XV5R2zNKT5CeBvoZ4= Message-ID: <9e47339105060817342bdd2dd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:34:34 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Subject: Re: Dell BIOS and HPET timer support Cc: lkml , Bob Picco In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB6004EBD1B0@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB6004EBD1B0@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/8/05, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > But, this will not affect normal kernel functioning. This will only > affect is someone wants to use /dev/hpet interface. I tried the little demo program in Documentation/hpet.txt It seems to work fine. Still not sure what 0ns tick signifies. This is an Intel ICH5 chipset. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com