On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:57:48 +0300 Mikko Tiihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Enables HPET for NVidia motherboards with broken BIOS. The patch reads > the HPET address from the pci config space. The patch should also work > if ACPI is disabled. > > The new quirk activates use of HPET only run if > - CONFIG_HPET_NFORCE_DETECT is enabled > - nohpet boot option is not set > - main chipset is from NVidia > - ACPI tables do not list HPET > - matching PCI ID for device with HPET is found > - BIOS has set up the HPET to some address > - there is no other resource allocated at the HPET address > > This is true at least for some Asus, Gigabyte and DFI motherboards. > > Patch is against 2.6.21-rc6-git7 but should apply cleanly to most > kernels. I looked at applying this but a) there have been rather a lot of underlying changes in Andi's devel tree and b) we still haven't heard from Andy? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
