linux-kernel - Re: AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501

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Date:	Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:26:59 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@...xperts.de>
CC:	Conrad Kostecki <ck@...rad-kostecki.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501

On 09/09/2014 07:54 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> @hpa: You asked whether this might affect any other e6xx devices.
> 
> According to the atom e6xx-series datasheet the HPET is non optional
> and always memory mapped to 0xfed00000. I don't see how that would
> harm any machine which has the hpet proper advertised via ACPI.
> 

That seems straightforward then.

I still wish someone would take a cluebat to Soekris.  We keep hearing
crap like this about their firmware over and over and over again.  It
isn't like you can't get EDK2 or Coreboot and build a BIOS based mostly
on Open Source components these days... oh, wait.

	-hpa

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