Known issue/fix: enabling HPET on unsupported hardware .

[Andrey Melentyev]

http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2006/11/14/277

Maybe you'll find this information helpful. Does this letter mean that
there is a way to enable HPET on VIA VT8237 without its support in
BIOS?

2007/6/6, Dag Bakke <dag at bakke.com>:
>
> See http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2007-June/000467.html
> Some hardware has a HPET, but it is not possible to enable it via the bios.
> There are many possible reasons for this, including broken hardware and
> lazy bios-coders. Hardware which is "known" to have a hidden HPET
> allegedly includes Intel ICH3m/ICH4m and VIA VT8237.
> (It runs on my ICH3m right now. No blue smoke yet.)
>
> A patch to enable your *unsupported* HPET may or may not be available
> somewhere down this tree:
> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/
>
> Currently, there is no way to enable the VT8237 HPET.