From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756875AbaIIP1U (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:27:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41562 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795AbaIIP1T (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:27:19 -0400 Message-ID: <540F1C43.2080708@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:26:59 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner , Eric Sesterhenn CC: Conrad Kostecki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" Subject: Re: AW: 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.e <0363648bf9644167bf5aa0a954cd145b@DB4PR04MB265.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com> <540F06F1.1040608@lsexperts.de> In-Reply-To: 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 09/09/2014 07:54 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > @hpa: You asked whether this might affect any other e6xx devices. > > According to the atom e6xx-series datasheet the HPET is non optional > and always memory mapped to 0xfed00000. I don't see how that would > harm any machine which has the hpet proper advertised via ACPI. > That seems straightforward then. I still wish someone would take a cluebat to Soekris. We keep hearing crap like this about their firmware over and over and over again. It isn't like you can't get EDK2 or Coreboot and build a BIOS based mostly on Open Source components these days... oh, wait. -hpa