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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] force HPET support on buggy NVidia-basedmachines

To: "Holger Steinhaus" <hsteinhaus@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] force HPET support on buggy NVidia-basedmachines
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:32:26 +0000
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>I'm not sure if patches like this one are really a good idea for Xen, but 
>maybe it helps some other people to run Xen more smoothly on their 
>development machines.

Besides having reservations about this kind of change in general, your
workaround looks functionally quite different from the Linux one,
despite you having said that you cloned it from that code. Any reason
for this?

Jan


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