Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:45:02 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/hpet: prevent boot hang when hpet=force used on old ICH |
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* Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> wrote:
> Ingo, > Thanks for the reply. > > But please disregard that patch -- we've cooked up a better one > that allows ICH4M to continue to use hpet=force, even for clocksource. > (and it is an ACPI patch rather than an x86 patch:-)
ok.
> However, I'll also send a 2nd patch to stop soliciting more > hpet=force users, since technically we shouldn't be encouraging > the use of this un-documented and lightly-validated hardware.
agreed - i've applied this patch.
Ingo
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