Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

[Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>]

On Monday 03 September 2007 09:06:25 Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Mats Johannesson <spamcan <at> bredband.net> writes:
> > On 2007-09-01 16:07:48 Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > The good:
> > >> +hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets.patch
> > >> +hpet-force-enable-on-vt8235-37-chipsets-fix.patch
> > >
> > > Kernel 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 works on one of my systems with:
> > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host
> > > Bridge (rev 01)
> > > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge
> > > [K8T800/K8T890 South]
> >
> > And glory, glory, my Acer Aspire 1520 (1524) AMD64 notebook with the
> > old vt8235 chipset got a good kick in the behind as well.
>
> Now we have working HPET override for Intel and Via, could Nvidia users be
> considered too? The required info has been known for ages:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117679014505031

Seconded. It's been largely ignored which is annoying because the HPET works 
perfectly on this board. I assume the reason is still that nobody from NVIDIA 
verified hardward support for the hack.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.
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