On Wed Jun 6 10:46:53 2007 Dag Bakke (DB) wrote: DB> Some hardware has a HPET, but it is not possible to enable it via the bios. DB> There are many possible reasons for this, including broken hardware and DB> lazy bios-coders. Hardware which is "known" to have a hidden HPET DB> allegedly includes Intel ICH3m/ICH4m and VIA VT8237. DB> DB> Currently, there is no way to enable the VT8237 HPET.
There is a patch against -hrt{6,7} to enable HPET on VT8237 and VT8235 at
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~us15/via-hpet.patch
Please give it a spin and report if it works for you, especially if you are
using a VT8235 southbridge.
Cheers,
- Udo
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Dipl.-Inf. Udo Steinberg
Technische Universität Dresden http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~us15
Institute for System Architecture Tel: +49 351 463 38401
D-01062 Dresden Fax: +49 351 463 38284
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