Re: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you going to pick this patch up via the x86 tree, or shall I > forward it to Andrew or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Do you want me to re-send with Venki's ack? no need, we merged your improvement via x86.git and it is now in Linus's latest

Re: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you going to pick this patch up via the x86 tree, or shall I forward it to Andrew or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you want me to re-send with Venki's ack? no need, we merged your improvement via x86.git and it is now in Linus's latest tree:

Re: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 01:12:33 Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: > Patch looks good. > If BIOS does not report HPET on more of such systems we may have to add > other chipsets in ICH9 family (ICH9_8, ...) as well. > > Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Ingo, Are you going to

Re: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-30 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 01:12:33 Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: Patch looks good. If BIOS does not report HPET on more of such systems we may have to add other chipsets in ICH9 family (ICH9_8, ...) as well. Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ingo, Are you going to pick this

RE: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-28 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
gt;Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:33 AM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: Ingo Molnar; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Alistair John Strachan >Subject: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards > >Some consumer ICH9 boards (such as the Abit IP35 Pro) do not >provide a BIOS >op

RE: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-28 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
, January 27, 2008 6:33 AM To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh Cc: Ingo Molnar; Linux Kernel Mailing List; Alistair John Strachan Subject: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards Some consumer ICH9 boards (such as the Abit IP35 Pro) do not provide a BIOS option for enabling the HPET. The same ICH

[PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-27 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Some consumer ICH9 boards (such as the Abit IP35 Pro) do not provide a BIOS option for enabling the HPET. The same ICH workaround used for 6,7,8 can be applied to 9. Here I enable the only PCI id that was visible on my system. I have confirmed the HPETs work both from userspace and as a