Re: [PATCH 4/8] Force detect and enable HPET on ICH

From: Udo A. Steinberg
Date: Mon May 21 2007 - 11:53:21 EST


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On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:46:03 -0700 Jesse Barnes (JB) wrote:

JB> I see it documented in the ICH5 datasheet, but that bit is marked reser=
ved=20
JB> in the ICH3 and ICH4 datasheets... Which docs are you looking at?

It's documented for ICH5 only. My experiments on IBM T30 (ICH3) and T41p (I=
CH4)
laptops show that HPET exists on these chipsets as well and can be enabled =
the
same way as described in the ICH5 datasheet.

Cheers,

- Udo

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