From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753012Ab0IMPaH (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:30:07 -0400 Received: from pindarots.xs4all.nl ([80.101.128.228]:41090 "EHLO pindarots.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311Ab0IMPaG (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:30:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4C8E437B.1060103@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:30:03 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100907 Fedora/3.1.3-1.fc13 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hpet timers gone? References: <4BFA52C3.4080006@xs4all.nl> <20100526120236.4a849b5b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4C021507.6020703@xs4all.nl> <4C02B3AB.3040405@gmail.com> <4C0324B8.8070304@xs4all.nl> <4C8E3ABF.90309@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4C8E3ABF.90309@xs4all.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2010-09-13 16:52, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > On 2010-05-31 06:00, Robert Hancock wrote: >> If they did add an HPET table entry, it should help, yes.. > > Is there a workaround? > VIA was not so helpfull: the bios flash tool they have on the site does > not recognise the board as a VIA board. > Also they state the latest BIOS will not add HPET to ACPI table. Could I adapt the old patch for 8237 to force-enable HPET? If so: I might need to find out in what ways the C700X2 and VT8237 differ w.r.t. HPET and/or id. Anyone here that could help? Or should blindly enabling HPET (as in VT8237) help? Udo