Re: HPET : Legacy Routing Replacement Enable - 3rd try.

[Om Narasimhan]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 1. HW is LRR capable, HPET ACPI it is 1, timer interrupt is on INT2.
> > Before the fix: Linux cannot get timer interrupts on INT0, goes for ACPI 
> > timer.
>
> What ACPI timer?  I don't think we have any fallback for int 0.
Sorry, Mea Culpa, I should have written APIC timer.
> Not sure what you mean with INT2. Pin2 on ioapic 0 perhaps?
Yes. PIN2 on IOAPIC #0.
> > After the fix : Works fine. This is according to hpet spec.
>
> On what exact motherboard was that?
SunFire X4600
> > To handle case 3, I removed all references to acpi_hpet_lrr, explained
> > this case in the code and decided to solely rely on the command line
> > parameter for LRR capability. Rational for this approach is ,
>
> This means the systems which you said fixes this would need the command
> line parameter to work? 
I feel I do not make things clear enough.
The command line parameter can be avoided entirely if majority of the BIOSes implement LRR routing correctly. I would rewrite the patch to avoid cmdline parameter and according to Andrew Morton's suggestions.

Thanks,
Om.
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