Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH] x86/hpet: setup HPET even when disabled due to stopping in deep C states"): > Always allow the HPET to be setup, but don't report a frequency back > to the platform time source probe in order to avoid it from being > selected as a valid timer if it's not usable. > > Doing the setup even when not intended to be used as a platform timer > is required so that is can be used in legacy replacement mode in order > to assert the IO-APIC is capable of receiving interrupts. > > Fixes: c12731493a ('x86/hpet: Use another crystalball to evaluate HPET > usability') > Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>
Release-Acked-by: Ian Jackson <i...@xenproject.org>