Re: [PATCH v2] x86: hpet: Don't default CONFIG_HPET_TIMER to be y for X86_64

[Clemens Ladisch]

Feng Tang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 08:17:16AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>  - or the kernel should have a quirk to reliably disable it. Why
>>    should we crash or misbehave if a driver is built into the
>>    kernel?
>
> I thought about this before, HPET doesn't have PCI ID like stuff,

HPET does have the PCI vendor ID in the first register.

> only thing I can think of to identify them may be the CPU family/ID.

The HPET is implemented by some actual chip, and that chip also has lots
of PCI devices.  (In the case of a SoC, the CPU ID would work, too).


Regards,
Clemens
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