Re: [PATCH] Revert commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Sep 04 2008 - 11:32:41 EST



* Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This reverts commit e8aa4667baf74dfd85fbaab86861465acb811085
> (x86: enable hpet=force for AMD SB400)
>
> Since ATI/AMD decided not to support HPET on SB4xx it doesn't
> make sense to enable this unsupported feature.
> (I was not aware of this when submitting the quirk.)
>
> If a system with SB4xx chipset provides an ACPI HPET table and does
> not boot, "nohpet" should be used as kernel parameter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx>

applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Andreas. I guess a system broke due to
this commit?

Ingo
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