Re: Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was:Re: hpet timers gone?

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Sep 21 2010 - 12:40:36 EST


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Who can help me get this minor patch into the kernel?

You need to CC these folks:
konrad@phenom:~/work/linux$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx>
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Which I just did on your e-mail.

>
> Kind regards,
> Udo
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT was: Re: hpet
> timers gone?
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:15:08 +0200
> From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On 2010-09-14 01:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> So what else can I do to enable HPET?
> >
> > At this point, not much, unless you can track down the chipset
> > information that would allow us to implement force enabling HPET on
> > that chipset..
>
> Signed-off-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c 2010-09-13 18:02:14.639710309 +0200
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c 2010-09-13 18:02:06.095280815 +0200
> @@ -344,6 +344,8 @@
> vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237,
> vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700,
> + vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
>
> static void ati_force_hpet_resume(void)
> {
>
> Patch does make hpet appear on VIA Epia LT (CX700M2 chipset) with
> hpet=force on kernel commandline.
>
>
> Udo
>
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