Kernel patches

[Benjamin Pineau]

On 11/1/07, Alec Robertson <alec.robertson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My machine is a t41p thinkpad with an Intel ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M (82081DB/DBL/DBM)
> and as I mentioned, it used to work with the last 2.6.23 hrtimer patches. Any
> ideas on why the new kernel is not forcing hpet in my machine?

The "force enable hpet on ICH4" has been merged in
2.6.24, but the functionality isn't enabled by default.
That's now a kernel boot option : just add  "hpet=force"
on the kernel's cmdline, and hpet will be back.