Re: [PATCH] x86: Get irq for hpet timer

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Kevin Hao wrote:

> But if we avoid all the legacy range, the hpet timer will have no chance
> to work on a host using legacy PIC.

 It's not meant to be wired to the legacy PIC anyway (except from the
timers #0 and #1 in some configurations, meant to emulate timer interrupts
of the 8254 and the RTC), though I can imagine such a non-standard
extension.

> Yes, we should setup routing in the I/O APIC and use level-triggered
> mode. I think it's better to use acpi_register_gsi than mp_register_gsi.
> Is that right?

 It sounds right to me.

  Maciej
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