On Thursday 16 September 2004 10:32 am, Christoph Lameter wrote:Look at HPET revision history. Specifically 0.98 01/20/2002
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
Christoph Lameter wrote:The Intel Multimedia Standard is a earlier and different timer spec.
The timer hardware was designed around the multimedia timer specification by IntelAs far as I can see, drivers/char/hpet.c talks to the same hardware.
but to my knowledge only SGI has implemented that standard. The driver was written
by Jesse Barnes.
HP sx1000 machines (and probably others) also implement the HPET.
I have a spec that's labelled "IA-PC Multimedia Timers", preliminary
draft of June 2000, revision 0.97, which looks like the one mentioned
in your patch.
I also have something labelled "IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event
Timers) Specification", draft of February 2002, revision 0.98,
which is what drivers/char/hpet.c supports.
I admit I haven't compared them in great detail, but they certainly
*look* like they're close enough that the same driver could support
both, and the 0.98 revision history only mentions fairly cosmetic
changes (like the name :)).
Is there something specific that drivers/char/hpet.c expects that
your hardware doesn't implement?