From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945963AbXC3Jqt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:46:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945964AbXC3Jqt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:46:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:36051 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945963AbXC3Jqs (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:46:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space From: Ingo Molnar To: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: linux-kernel , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20070222170616.A27455@unix-os.sc.intel.com> References: <20070222170616.A27455@unix-os.sc.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:46:43 +0200 Message-Id: <1175248003.6157.43.camel@earth4> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 17:06 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > Patchset enables force detection of HPET, when it is not listed by > BIOS. > and enables use of HPET as a event source. HPET timers > configures in stamdard interrupt mode can be used as dependable per > CPU timer > on laptops that are known to have LAPIC stoppage with ACPI C3 state. (sorry about the belated reply) cool patchset! I suspect the most logical place to start this would be on upstream 32-bit, which has the hpet clockevents changes already. Plus the i386 and x86_64 hpet code should be unified. Ingo