Re: 2.6.7-bk way too fast

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:53:16AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:23 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > x86-64 has a different HPET driver than i386. And HPET is only used when
> > present in the machine (so far only AMD chipsets), _and_ reported by the
> > ACPI BIOS. Which is rather uncommon.
> 
> If we know which chipsets have it, why would we refrain from using it
> just because the BIOS doesn't report it?
 
Because it doesn't have resources allocated, and we don't know which
memory range is free to use so early at boottime.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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