Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:16:33 -0600 | Subject | Re: hpet timers gone? | From | Robert Hancock <> |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2010-05-31 06:00, Robert Hancock wrote: >> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> On 2010-05-30 20:51, Robert Hancock wrote: >>>> On 05/30/2010 01:34 AM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: >>>>> The board has VIA C7 CPU and VIA CX700M2 Unified Digital Media IGP >>>>> chipset which supports HPET. >>>>> >>>>> Can it be that the kernel lacks support for CX700 hpet? >>>>> Or is it a matter of getting the BIOS upgrade to work? >>>> >>>> Your current BIOS doesn't provide an HPET ACPI table, which is the way >>>> it's supposed to indicate support. The kernel only supports >>>> force-enabling HPET on VIA for VT8235 and VT8237. >>> >>> So yes, I should try the BIOS upgrade first? >> >> If they did add an HPET table entry, it should help, yes.. > > Is there a workaround? > VIA was not so helpfull: the bios flash tool they have on the site does > not recognise the board as a VIA board. > Also they state the latest BIOS will not add HPET to ACPI table. > > So what else can I do to enable HPET?
At this point, not much, unless you can track down the chipset information that would allow us to implement force enabling HPET on that chipset..
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