RE: [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:47 AM
>To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>Cc: linux-kernel; Thomas Gleixner
>Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] RT kernel: force detect HPET from PCI space
>
>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.
>

Yes. I restarted the work recently with i386 and upstream. I should
have the some patches in couple of weeks time.

Thanks,
Venki
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