linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] Force detect and enable HPET on ICH

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Date:	Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:03 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	"Udo A. Steinberg" <us15@...inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc:	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Force detect and enable HPET on ICH

On Sunday, May 20, 2007, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007 13:31:28 -0700 Venki Pallipadi (VP) wrote:
>
> VP> Force detect and/or enable HPET on ICH chipsets. This patch just
> handles the VP> detection part and following patches use this
> information.
> VP>
> VP> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
>
> Venki,
>
> Is there any reason your patch only enables HPET on ICH6 and beyond?
> HPET can be enabled on earlier ICH by setting bit 17 in GEN_CNTL on PCI
> dev 31, func 0, offset d0. This seems to work for ICH3/4/5. Are there
> any errata affecting these ICHs?

I see it documented in the ICH5 datasheet, but that bit is marked reserved 
in the ICH3 and ICH4 datasheets...  Which docs are you looking at?

Jesse
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