Commit 669692e4 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] HPET 3/6: makefile and config changes

From: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>

Miscallaneous makefile and config changes
parent 3c732c3b
......@@ -215,7 +215,10 @@ running once the system is up.
when calculating gettimeofday(). If specicified timesource
is not avalible, it defaults to PIT.
Format: { pit | tsc | cyclone | ... }
hpet= [IA-32,HPET] option to disable HPET and use PIT.
Format: disable
cm206= [HW,CD]
Format: { auto | [<io>,][<irq>] }
......
......@@ -408,6 +408,17 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE
Otherwise, say N.
config HPET_TIMER
bool "HPET Timer Support"
help
This enables the use of the HPET for the kernel's internal timer.
HPET is the next generation timer replacing legacy 8254s.
You can safely choose Y here. However, HPET will only be
activated if the platform and the BIOS support this feature.
Otherwise the 8254 will be used for timing services.
Choose N to continue using the legacy 8254 timer.
config SMP
bool "Symmetric multi-processing support"
---help---
......
......@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EDD) += edd.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += module.o
obj-y += sysenter.o vsyscall.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SRAT) += srat.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HPET_TIMER) += time_hpet.o
EXTRA_AFLAGS := -traditional
......
......@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
obj-y := timer.o timer_none.o timer_tsc.o timer_pit.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_CYCLONE_TIMER) += timer_cyclone.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HPET_TIMER) += timer_hpet.o
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