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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

> Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > The timer hardware was designed around the multimedia timer specification by Intel
> > but to my knowledge only SGI has implemented that standard. The driver was written
> > by Jesse Barnes.
>
> As far as I can see, drivers/char/hpet.c talks to the same hardware.
> HP sx1000 machines (and probably others) also implement the HPET.

The Intel Multimedia Standard is a earlier and different timer spec.