Venki, I think that the confirmation from Dell in this bug report is justification enough for you to push native HPET probing and for Linux to not rely on ACPI to enumerate the HPET. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4255 -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html