Mikko Tiihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Enables HPET for NVidia motherboards with broken BIOS. The patch reads > the HPET address from the pci config space. The patch should also work > if ACPI is disabled. > > The HPET search is done in early-quirks because even > DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY was too late. If the new quirk causes problems > it can be disabled with the nohpet boot option. > > The patch assumes that the BIOS has done the basic setup of HPET, but > has not published the result in ACPI tables. This is at least true for > some Asus and Gigabyte motherboards.
I think the code should only be enabled by its CONFIG_*. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
