Re: [PATCH] HPET: Drop WARN_ON for mismatch on HPET CMP readback

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:32 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:22:15AM -0800, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 11:11 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >  HPET: Drop WARN_ON for mismatch on HPET CMP readback
> > >     
> > >     At least one Intel chipset seems to always return a constant value
> > >     when reading back the HPET CMP register. This triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE
> > >     on each boot.
> > 
> > I don't know of chipset returning a constant value. Which chipset is
> > this one?
> 
> Ibex Peak. That is I'm not sure it's fully constant, but at least
> it's always the same value on the HPET read triggering on boot.

OK. Yes. Ibexpeak is the same problem as ICH9, with reads not returning
the most recent write.

Thanks,
Venki


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