RE: [PATCH v2 char-misc 1/1] x86/hyperv: Fix PIT shutdown quirk

From: Michael Kelley
Date: Tue Oct 30 2018 - 09:41:22 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 1:36 AM
>
> You can avoid the ideffery completely. Something like the uncompiled patch
> (lacks comments) below keeps everything in i8253 and should just work.
>

Thanks. I'll spin a new version with that approach. Having to clutter the i8253
code with a Hyper-V quirk is unfortunate, but it's a lot fewer lines of code overall.

Michael