Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/6] x86_64: hpet_address cleanup

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 04:17, john stultz wrote:
> In preparation for supporting generic timekeeping, this patch cleans up 
> x86-64's use of vxtime.hpet_address, changing it to just hpet_address 
> as is also used in i386. This is necessary since the vxtime structure 
> will be going away.

Does the kernel still boot with that patch only? 
Your new variable doesn't seem to be exported to vsyscalls

-Andi
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