add resume support for hpet

Wilkinson, Alex alex.wilkinson at dsto.defence.gov.au
Thu Mar 29 06:17:16 UTC 2007


    0n Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:29:28PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: 

    >Andrea Bittau wrote:
    >> When resuming, the timer needs to be reactivated.  Some boxes use hpet for their
    >> time of day and if hpet doesn't resume, the time of day never changes, screwing
    >> up the whole box.  I'm not sure if this is the correct way to do thing [do you
    >> need re-calibration?] but it seems to work for me.
    >
    >Yes, that was correct.  No recalibration is necessary since the HPET is
    >not variable-rate.  I committed the patch, thanks.

Erm, what is HPET ?

 -aW

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