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Message-ID: <20100921163811.GC21459@dumpdata.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:38:11 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, markh@...pro.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT  was:
 Re: hpet timers gone?

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:20:41PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Who can help me get this minor patch into the kernel?

You need to CC these folks:
konrad@...nom:~/work/linux$ scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c 
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
x86@...nel.org
Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
Mark Hounschell <markh@...pro.net>
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org

Which I just did on your e-mail.

> 
> Kind regards,
> Udo
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: patch: HPET force enable for CX700 / VIA Epia LT  was: Re: hpet
> timers gone?
> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:15:08 +0200
> From: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
> To: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> On 2010-09-14 01:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl> wrote:
> >> So what else can I do to enable HPET?
> > 
> > At this point, not much, unless you can track down the chipset
> > information that would allow us to implement force enabling HPET on
> > that chipset..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh@...all.nl>
> 
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:14.639710309 +0200
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/quirks.c	2010-09-13 18:02:06.095280815 +0200
> @@ -344,6 +344,8 @@
>  			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
>  DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_8237,
>  			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_HEADER(PCI_VENDOR_ID_VIA, PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700,
> +			 vt8237_force_enable_hpet);
> 
>  static void ati_force_hpet_resume(void)
>  {
> 
> Patch does make hpet appear on VIA Epia LT (CX700M2 chipset) with
> hpet=force on kernel commandline.
> 
> 
> Udo
> 
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