Re: [coreboot] ICH HPET

[Joseph Smith]

On 03/17/2010 02:37 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 3/17/10 6:43 PM, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > And ICH 0-4 does not support HPET and should be removed from code....
> >
> > Not quite, ICH3 and ICH4 do have HPET, just undocumented by Intel.
> > There's been kernel support to force-enable it since 2007 which
> > obviously works fine and has been tested by various people since then.
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdif...
> >
> > So I think we should keep the ICH3/4 code around (ICH0-ICH2 can be safely
> > dropped I guess).
>
> Uh,.. you are right..! sorry for my quick shot.. I'll back out the dx
> change I made... CX never had enable_hpet code it seems.

Ah cool! Stefan, don't do anything, new patch coming.