Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752354AbaBNT1C (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:27:02 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57621 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751822AbaBNT1A (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:27:00 -0500 Message-ID: <52FE6DEF.1050607@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:26:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Conrad Kostecki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" Subject: Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 References: <4729ad4b8d3342c1b0e29fefe4b04d6a@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <52FE5683.6030708@zytor.com> <52FE5BB6.9070405@zytor.com> <1051d374173243b2828efcd21f60ac36@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <52FE5D91.6060005@zytor.com> <52FE5ED4.4040508@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/14/2014 11:15 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> We could also just add an ACPI table... same concept. Still need to find it. > > I'm fine with ACPI tables if we can provide simple means for embedded > users to load one via grub or just attach it to the kernel image. That already exists, see Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt. > Sure, the user needs to know how to prepare one, but for similar > platforms, e.g. e6xx based stuff the tables would look all the > same. We probably could just recycle those from the BLDK. Yes, that might be a good way to do it. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/