On 8/21/07, Matthew Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-18-08 at 01:11 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > > plain text document attachment (clock-hpet) > > Linux operates the HPET timer in legacy replacement mode, which means that > > the periodic interrupt of the CMOS RTC is not delivered (qemu won't be able > > to use /dev/rtc). Add support for HPET (/dev/hpet) as a replacement for the > > RTC; the periodic interrupt is delivered via SIGIO and is handled in the > > same way as the RTC timer. > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I must be missing something silly here.. should I be able to open more > than one instance of qemu with -clock hpet? Because upon invoking a > second instance of qemu HPET_IE_ON fails.
It depends on your hardware. Theoretically it's possible, but I've yet to see a motherboard with more than one periodic timer. "dmesg | grep hpet" should tell you something like: hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz Luca
