[RFC][PATCH] X86_64: no legacy HPET fix (v. A1)

2005-04-18 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 19:21 -0700, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > > This adds another timer combination of PIT/HPET to go with > HPET/HPET, HPET/TSC and PIT/TSC! > This system that has HPET and doesn't have Legacy support, does it support > routing HPET interrupts through IOAPIC in standard routing

Re: [RFC][PATCH] X86_64: no legacy HPET fix

2005-04-13 Thread Venkatesh Pallipadi
This adds another timer combination of PIT/HPET to go with HPET/HPET, HPET/TSC and PIT/TSC! This system that has HPET and doesn't have Legacy support, does it support routing HPET interrupts through IOAPIC in standard routing option? If yes, then I think adding support to route HPET interrupts in

[RFC][PATCH] X86_64: no legacy HPET fix

2005-04-12 Thread john stultz
All, Currently the x86-64 HPET code assumes the entire HPET implementation from the spec is present. This breaks on boxes that do not implement the optional legacy timer replacement functionality portion of the spec. This is my first swing at resolving this issue, allowing x86-64 systems t