Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:14:38 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085 |
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote: > > > This reverts commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085 > > (x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400) > > > > Since ATI/AMD decided not to support HPET on SB4xx it doesn't > > make sense to enable this unsupported feature. > > (I was not aware of this when submitting the quirk.) > > > > If a system with SB4xx chipset provides an ACPI HPET table and does > > not boot, "nohpet" should be used as kernel parameter. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> > > applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Andreas. I guess a system broke due to > this commit?
Hmm, why do we remove something which needs to be force enabled by the user anyway ?
Is the HPET on these systems not working at all so the force enable code is useless ?
Thanks,
tglx
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