On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:57:48 +0300
Mikko Tiihonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enables HPET for NVidia motherboards with broken BIOS. The patch reads
> the HPET address from the pci config space. The patch should also work
> if ACPI is disabled.
>
> The new quirk activates use of HPET only run if
> - CONFIG_HPET_NFORCE_DETECT is enabled
> - nohpet boot option is not set
> - main chipset is from NVidia
> - ACPI tables do not list HPET
> - matching PCI ID for device with HPET is found
> - BIOS has set up the HPET to some address
> - there is no other resource allocated at the HPET address
>
> This is true at least for some Asus, Gigabyte and DFI motherboards.
>
> Patch is against 2.6.21-rc6-git7 but should apply cleanly to most
> kernels.
I looked at applying this but
a) there have been rather a lot of underlying changes in Andi's devel tree and
b) we still haven't heard from Andy?
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