Re: False "lost ticks" on dual-Opteron system (=> timer twice asfast)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed May 25 2005 - 12:11:51 EST


Hendrik Visage <hvjunk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> What I still need to ascertain, is whether the MSI K8N Neo Platinum
> (nForce2 250) *do* have a HPET implementation or not, as my timer.c
> only reports a PIT timer :(

Nvidia never reports HPET in their BIOS, so the kernel cannot use it.
There are rumours it is actually in the hardware though, but it would
need magic code to enable.

-Andi
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/