linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085

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Date:	Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:32:06 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085


* Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com> wrote:

> This reverts commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085
>  (x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400)
> 
> Since ATI/AMD decided not to support HPET on SB4xx it doesn't
> make sense to enable this unsupported feature.
> (I was not aware of this when submitting the quirk.)
> 
> If a system with SB4xx chipset provides an ACPI HPET table and does
> not boot, "nohpet" should be used as kernel parameter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Andreas. I guess a system broke due to 
this commit?

	Ingo
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