From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6][5/5]Support for HPET based timer
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:04:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030820010424.GA18581@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3vfstqie7.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> writes:
> > Even on those machines where APIC interrupts are not usable?
> > (E.g. due to interactions with the SMM BIOS).
>
> On those you can always use the old style PIT.
Let me put the question better. Is it worth using the new style HPET,
on systems which cannot use APIC interrupts because of BIOS problems
(e.g. IBM laptops)?
-- Jamie
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2003-08-20 0:31 ` Andi Kleen
2003-08-20 1:04 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-08-20 8:05 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-21 20:56 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
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2003-08-20 17:51 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-21 8:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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2003-08-20 8:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-19 19:20 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-19 22:41 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-08-20 0:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-20 8:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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