Known issue/fix: enabling HPET on unsupported hardware .

[Udo A. Steinberg]

On Wed Jun  6 10:46:53 2007 Dag Bakke (DB) wrote:

DB> Some hardware has a HPET, but it is not possible to enable it via the bios.
DB> There are many possible reasons for this, including broken hardware and
DB> lazy bios-coders. Hardware which is "known" to have a hidden HPET
DB> allegedly includes Intel ICH3m/ICH4m and VIA VT8237.
DB> 
DB> Currently, there is no way to enable the VT8237 HPET.

There is a patch against -hrt{6,7} to enable HPET on VT8237 and VT8235 at
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/~us15/via-hpet.patch

Please give it a spin and report if it works for you, especially if you are
using a VT8235 southbridge.

Cheers,

	- Udo

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Dipl.-Inf. Udo Steinberg                     
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