On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 15:46, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Mark Kettenis [mark.kette...@xs4all.nl] wrote: >> > Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:02:43 -0400 >> > From: Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> >> > >> > The acpihpet timer is, in my testing, lots better than the acpitimer. >> > Faster to read and more precise. They should not have the same quality >> > value. Double acpihpet. >> >> Since both acpitimer(4) and acpihpet(4) are based on an abstract >> specification that AFAIK doesn't say anything about the actual >> underlying hardware I'm totally unconvinced unless you can show this >> to be true on a wide variety of hardware. >> > > HPET on some processors is emulated in software via BIOS. Ring -1 or > whatever. I believe one of either the AMD Elan SC420 or the AMD Geode LX > fits in this category.
hpet or just regular acpi timer?
