hpet timer patch for powertop

[Ahmed Kamal]

Cool, but it seems that my tickless kernel is ticking! Also since "grep -i
hpet /proc/timer_list" returns nothing, it seems my BIOS is disabling hpet,
so the hpet force-enable patch is needed. I guess the question now is, will
F8 kernel contain that patch? Since the powertop guys say that *lots* of
BIOSs disable hpet, I think it's beneficial to merge that.

On 9/22/07, Christopher Brown <snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 22/09/2007, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > actually I'm still on FC6, and I'm using i686 CPU. The kernel is from
> > tuxonice (suspend2) which is basically the same fedora kernel with suspend2
> > patches. Anyway, I thought all .22 kernels had tickless, dont they.
> > If all of this + hpet patches will be in fedora8, I will be a happy
> > fedorian ;)
>
>
> Yes, all kernels >= 2.6.22 for x86 are tickless. x86_64 are not for f7 but
> will be for f8.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTicklessKernel
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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