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SubjectRe: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501
On 02/14/2014 11:15 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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>> 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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