Re: [GIT PULL] timer fixes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 3:55 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Add HPET quirks for the Intel "Coffee Lake H" and "Ice Lake" platforms.

Is there any reason we don't force-disable HPET by default if there
are alternatives?

I think that's what Microsoft did, which is why it's so broken on so
many platforms - it's often simply not used.

                   Linus