Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:56:24 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.7-bk way too fast |
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On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:53:16AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:23 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > x86-64 has a different HPET driver than i386. And HPET is only used when > > present in the machine (so far only AMD chipsets), _and_ reported by the > > ACPI BIOS. Which is rather uncommon. > > If we know which chipsets have it, why would we refrain from using it > just because the BIOS doesn't report it?
Because it doesn't have resources allocated, and we don't know which memory range is free to use so early at boottime.
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