From: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@lsexperts.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Conrad Kostecki <ck@conrad-kostecki.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:41:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5412BFAF.7050900@lsexperts.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <540F1C43.2080708@zytor.com>
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hi,
On 09/09/2014 05:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
this means the original patch written by Conrad is going to be applied?
Is there anything we can do to help regarding this issue?
> 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.
I have send them another message regarding this issue, but so far
they did not respond. In the past their responsiveness also varied a lot
according to my collegue.
Regards, Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-12 9:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-14 10:23 [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:06 ` AW: " Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:13 ` AW: " Conrad Kostecki
2014-02-14 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 18:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 19:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 19:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 19:59 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 21:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-14 21:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 21:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 16:28 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 18:23 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 18:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-17 19:25 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-17 19:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-18 18:22 ` ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: Provide support for ACPI table adding via OS Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-18 18:44 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-19 11:22 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-21 7:24 ` [Devel] " Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 7:28 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 2/4] ACPICA: Introduce new acpi_os_physical_table_add OS callback Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] ACPICA: Add BGRT signature to known signatures Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] ACPI: Add new table signatures that can be overridden/added Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 18:38 ` [Devel] ACPI: Also allow ACPI table adding via initrd not only overriding Moore, Robert
2014-02-18 18:52 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-18 19:59 ` Moore, Robert
2014-02-19 11:14 ` Thomas Renninger
2014-02-19 13:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-02-14 18:28 ` AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 Conrad Kostecki
2014-09-09 13:56 ` Eric Sesterhenn
2014-09-09 14:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-09 15:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-09 15:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-12 9:41 ` Eric Sesterhenn [this message]
2014-09-12 10:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-09-12 11:06 ` [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for e6xx based systems Eric Sesterhenn
2014-09-16 0:58 ` [tip:x86/platform] " tip-bot for Peter Neubauer
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