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Subject: Re: Fwd: hpet patches
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 13:54 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> It would be more complicated to try and turn it on if it is turned
> off. Mine is turned on at boot even though it has no ACPI entry. A
> routine like this should at least get things started.
> 

I think you are reinventing the wheel, the high res timers patch already
has the necessary voodoo to find and enable the HPET, AFAICT it already
handles your situation (HPET present but missing from ACPI table).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

Lee