Re: [PATCH v2] hpet: Enable hidden HPET on NVidia motherboards

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Mikko Tiihonen <mikko.tiihonen@xxxxxx> writes:

> Enables HPET for NVidia motherboards with broken BIOS. The patch reads
> the HPET address from the pci config space. The patch should also work
> if ACPI is disabled.
>
> The HPET search is done in early-quirks because even 
> DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_EARLY was too late. If the new quirk causes problems
> it can be disabled with the nohpet boot option.
>
> The patch assumes that the BIOS has done the basic setup of HPET, but
> has not published the result in ACPI tables. This is at least true for
> some Asus and Gigabyte motherboards.

I think the code should only be enabled by its CONFIG_*.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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