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



>>> Holger Steinhaus <hsteinhaus@xxxxxx> 25.01.08 12:53 >>>
>> 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?
>My patch is based on this one: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/17/354 
>Some minor changes were necessary to resolve some dependencies from the Linux 
>kernel. Finally, I did not include any Intel or VIA related stuff, as I'm not 
>able to test it due to the lack of appropriate hardware. 

But this afaict never made it into any Linux version; I checked 2.6.24
and the workaround there looks different (and without knowing any
chipset details it seems to me that both approaches have some
weaknesses).

Jan


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