Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2014 08:26:59 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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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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