On Saturday 15 November 2008 10:23:09 pm Waleed Harbi wrote: > -The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware is the future replacement > -for the 8254 and Real Time Clock (RTC) periodic timer functionality. > -Each HPET can have up to 32 timers. It is possible to configure the > -first two timers as legacy replacements for 8254 and RTC periodic timers. > -A specification done by Intel and Microsoft can be found at > -<http://www.intel.com/technology/architecture/hpetspec.htm>. > > http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/27-git8/Documentation/hpet.txt > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPET > Thanks for the information, however the intel link is dead. The bugzilla, http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418, link does say something about the fact that it is a timer seems to be a problem specifically on amd processors, although it does not affect my desktop computer but only my laptop which is a newer generation of amd processor. If you read the bugzilla entry it seems to be fixed in the 2.6.27-5 kernel, so a permanent solution is on the way. Thanks again. Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
