Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:26:27 +0100 |
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> Seconded. It's been largely ignored which is annoying because the HPET > works perfectly on this board. I assume the reason is still that nobody > from NVIDIA verified hardward support for the hack.
It's IMHO a bad idea to add any overrides without access to data sheets and errata sheets. The hardware might be broken and do bad (subtle) bad things with HPET. That's not a theoretical case. There used to be at least one case where a chipset would occasionally destroy the BIOS flash when HPET was force enabled.
That means for Intel it's fine to do (because errata sheets are public); but for Nvidia and VIA it's dangerous and should not be done.
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