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: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:36:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y7kssg98.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176708094.22969.7.camel@dual.local> (Mikko Tiihonen's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:21:33 +0300")
Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@iki.fi> writes:
> Enables HPET for NVidia motherboards with broken BIOS. The patch reads
> the HPET address from the pci config space. The patch should also work
> if ACPI is disabled.
>
> The HPET search is done in early-quirks because even
> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY was too late. If the new quirk causes problems
> it can be disabled with the nohpet boot option.
>
> The patch assumes that the BIOS has done the basic setup of HPET, but
> has not published the result in ACPI tables. This is at least true for
> some Asus and Gigabyte motherboards.
I think the code should only be enabled by its CONFIG_*.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-16 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-16 7:21 Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-16 11:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-04-16 13:33 ` Mikko Tiihonen
2007-04-17 11:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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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