(Cc:-ed Venki for the force-hpet issue below)

* Eric St-Laurent [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 2007-09-06 at 23:05 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

quoted

i'm pleased to announce the v2.6.21.4-rt11 kernel, which can be 
downloaded from the usual place:

I'm running 2.6.21.4-rt12-cfs-v17 (x86_64), so far no problems. I like 
this kernel a lot, it's feels quite smooth.

yeah, that's probably CFS in the works :-) That combined with PREEMPT_RT 
makes for a really snappy desktop.

One little thing, no HPET timer is detected. By looking at the patch, 
even the force detect code is there, it should work.

The hpet timer is not available as a clocksource and only one hpet
related message is present in dmesg:

PM: Adding info for No Bus:hpet

This is on a Asus P5LD2-VM motherboard (ICH7)

Relevant config bits:

CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
# CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC is not set
CONFIG_HPET=y
# CONFIG_HPET_RTC_IRQ is not set
CONFIG_HPET_MMAP=y

Should I enable one of the two other options? Any ideas?

Venki, is this ICH7 board supposed to work with force-hpet?

	Ingo