-----Original Message-----
From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@elte.hu] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 12:32 AM
To: Eric St-Laurent
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; 
linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org; Thomas Gleixner; Dinakar 
Guniguntala; Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Subject: Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11


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

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

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

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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 

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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.

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One little thing, no HPET timer is detected. By looking at 

the patch, 

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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?

Yes. Force_hpet part is should have worked..
Eric: Can you send me the output of 'lspci -n on your system.
We need to double check we are covering all ICH7 ids.

Thanks,
Venki