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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Enable HPET on VIA8237 southbridge
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:49:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127749798.433818a676435@domainfactory-webmail.de> (raw)

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.

> 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).


Regards,
Clemens


             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-26 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-26 15:49 Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2005-09-26 17:34 ` [PATCH/RFC] Enable HPET on VIA8237 southbridge Karsten Wiese
2005-09-28  7:03   ` Clemens Ladisch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-26 10:31 Karsten Wiese

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