From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934997AbXJSDaO (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:30:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758673AbXJSDaA (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:30:00 -0400 Received: from slackadelic.com ([65.196.224.53]:51951 "EHLO mail.slackadelic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756674AbXJSD37 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:29:59 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 429 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:29:59 EDT From: Carlos Corbacho To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: nVidia HPET force enable - merge requirements? (resend) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Cc: Mikko Tiihonen , Thomas Gleixner , Venkatesh Pallipadi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:23:31 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200710190423.31714.cathectic@slackadelic.com> X-slackadelic.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-slackadelic.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-slackadelic.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.1, required 4, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10) X-slackadelic.com-MailScanner-From: cathectic@slackadelic.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Resend with CC's fixed) Back in April, Mikko posted a patch to force enable the HPET on some nVidia chipsets: v2: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/16/46 v3: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/17/354 What would need to be done to this patch to get it into x86 now (besides i386/ x86_64 -> x86 conversion), given that: A) There is now a force_hpet boot parameter in the x86 tree (mm branch) (rather than relying on the solution in the earlier patches of a config option). B) On the other hand, the force-quirk's are going into quirks.c, whilst Mikko's patch requires PCI scanning in early_quirks.c (could the PCI scanning be done in early_quirks.c and the actual HPET enabling handled in quirks.c later - or if not, could this early quirk play be made to obey the force_hpet boot option)? -Carlos -- E-Mail: cathectic@gmail.com Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D