Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751643AbVIZPuC (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:50:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751648AbVIZPuC (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:50:02 -0400 Received: from webmailv3.ispgateway.de ([62.67.200.115]:22449 "EHLO webmailv3.ispgateway.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751643AbVIZPuA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:50:00 -0400 Message-ID: <1127749798.433818a676435@domainfactory-webmail.de> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:49:58 +0200 From: Clemens Ladisch To: Karsten Wiese Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Enable HPET on VIA8237 southbridge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 213.238.46.206 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 23 Karsten Wiese wrote: > if you have that chip on your mainboard and want to play with it's > hpet, this might get you going. I'm using similar code for my ICH5 southbridge, but I patched arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c instead so that the kernel can use it for its own purposes. > One exception: Timer1 says it can do PERIODIC mode, > but this doesn't work here. One shot is ok. This may be because your patch doesn't initialize the interrupt routing registers (which would have been the BIOS' job). Regards, Clemens - 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/