Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:26:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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On 02/14/2014 11:15 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> We could also just add an ACPI table... same concept. Still need to find it. > > I'm fine with ACPI tables if we can provide simple means for embedded > users to load one via grub or just attach it to the kernel image.
That already exists, see Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt.
> Sure, the user needs to know how to prepare one, but for similar > platforms, e.g. e6xx based stuff the tables would look all the > same. We probably could just recycle those from the BLDK.
Yes, that might be a good way to do it.
-hpa
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