On 06/10/2007 10:48 AM, Andrey Melentyev wrote: > 2007/6/6, Dag Bakke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> See http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2007-June/000467.html >> Some hardware has a HPET, but it is not possible to enable it via the >> bios. >> There are many possible reasons for this, including broken hardware and >> lazy bios-coders. Hardware which is "known" to have a hidden HPET >> allegedly includes Intel ICH3m/ICH4m and VIA VT8237. >> (It runs on my ICH3m right now. No blue smoke yet.) >> >> A patch to enable your *unsupported* HPET may or may not be available >> somewhere down this tree: >> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/ >> >> Currently, there is no way to enable the VT8237 HPET.
> http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2006/11/14/277 > > Maybe you'll find this information helpful. Does this letter mean that > there is a way to enable HPET on VIA VT8237 without its support in > BIOS? Apparently, this is the case. Someone will just have to write the patch. Way out of my league, I am afraid. Supposedly very simple to do, but nonetheless.... A certain someone has it on his todo-list. I'll let that someone write code according to his own priorities. :-) Dag B. _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
