From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@iki.fi>
Cc: clemens@ladisch.de, bob.picco@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hpet: Enable hidden HPET on NVidia motherboards
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:26:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3abx744yn.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.64.0704161624010.487506@kosh.hut.fi> (Mikko Tiihonen's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:33:13 +0300 (EEST)")
Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@iki.fi> writes:
> Currently the all the code is protected by CONFIG_HPET.
> Are you proposing to use for example CONFIG_HPET_NVIDIA instead?
Something like that. CONFIG_HPET_NFORCE_DETECT maybe?
> I think that the code should be safe even without it's own config option.
Well, who knows. The hardware side (config bits) are probably safe
and easy to verify, but depending on BIOS assigning address to inactive
device seems risky.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-17 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 7:21 [PATCH v2] hpet: Enable hidden HPET on NVidia motherboards Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-16 11:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-16 13:33 ` Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-17 11:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-04-16 19:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-16 21:28 ` Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-16 21:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 10:13 ` Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-17 22:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-17 21:57 ` [PATCH v3] hpet: Detect " Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-20 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-21 9:50 ` Andi Kleen
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