On Thursday, November 21, 2013 04:43:59 PM Al Stone wrote: > On 11/20/2013 03:15 PM, Al Stone wrote: > > On 11/17/2013 03:26 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> On Saturday, November 09, 2013 06:36:21 PM al.stone@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> From: Al Stone <ahs3@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> I'm reading the patch as "the timer resolution in HW reduced mode is > >> always > >> 32-bit". Is my reading correct? > > > > Whups, I see what I did. You are reading the patch correctly. > > > > However, what the code should ultimately do is ignore the > > ACPI_FADT_32BIT_TIMER flag completely. Let me look at where the > > timer_resolution field is being used also since it is not immediately > > clear what value it should have, or if it should even be used, when > > in reduced HW mode. > > On further investigation, I'll take this patch out of this set. > I think this needs better handling in the ACPICA code so I'll work > with them on that. > > In the meantime, the spec seems to be completely mum on what the > timer resolution should be in reduced HW mode. If that's about the ACPI PM timer, that's because it's not present at all in HW reduced mode. Thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- 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
