Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 9 Sep 2014 17:41:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: AW: AW: AW: [PATCH] x86: HPET force enable for Soekris net6501 |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
You can, but I have a non soekris e6xx platform with a BLDK based BIOS which lacks ACPI and some other features....
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