Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751691AbVIZR3c (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751696AbVIZR3c (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:29:32 -0400 Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.35]:37494 "HELO smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751691AbVIZR3b (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:29:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=SK/AVI/Y7upgwLTHJRfK8Kfxm3S+PaEqQvs8xfmp8cVDyh98GOoTVuZjHh2TeNGmBZPySHXSj2sLHyqZmb9kZ9bizFFW9rqnnacDtC3lSCtwSDM7pUGT8A8dPfbSpoljk6TgDRM7zK4OnpgDGa5IFv84YrZ1NXyKqdfHi1Pyvz8= ; From: Karsten Wiese To: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Enable HPET on VIA8237 southbridge Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:34:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1127749798.433818a676435@domainfactory-webmail.de> In-Reply-To: <1127749798.433818a676435@domainfactory-webmail.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509261934.03876.annabellesgarden@yahoo.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1331 Lines: 38 Am Montag, 26. September 2005 17:49 schrieb Clemens Ladisch: > 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. The kernel uses the hpet here too with my patch. Please send me your acpi/boot.c patch. I guess you setup an ACPI_HPET entry, if none has been found? Maybe your approach is safer/better, 'cause you can scan other ACPI assigned Hardware addresses there. > > > 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). No. Interrupt works fine (IRQ 8). Reliably @10000/s. Regards, Karsten ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de - 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/