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   From: Peter Brown    
      
   Hi Dariusz   
      
   Dariusz Piatkowski wrote:   
   > Pete!   
   >   
   > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:49:10 UTC, Peter Brown   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi Lars   
   >>   
   >> Lars Erdmann wrote:   
   >>> Hi,   
   >>>   
   >>>> Maybe it could be incorporated into the acpi driver to help that   
   >>>> driver get things right (finally :-) - especially if it could also be   
   >>>> used for non Intel chipsets.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, we have to move away from the MP tables. ACPI comes with its own   
   >>> tables.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Oh, so that is why ACPI does not work  :-)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> I have checked a new machine that claimed to have an MP table but the table   
   >>> itself could not even be found at the indicated place. It was completely   
   >>> hosed.   
   >>>   
   >>> Forget about the "old fashioned" MP tables. ACPI tables are the future.   
   >>> The ACPI table equivalent to the MP tables is called "MADT table".   
   >>>   
   >>> Lars   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> What is a HPET table? - the only table mentioned in my mainboard BIOS.   
   >>   
   >> Regards   
   >>   
   >> Pete   
   >   
   > Here are a couple of takes on this:   
   >   
   > 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer   
   >   
   > 2) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463347.aspx   
   >   
   >   
      
      
   Thanks for the above urls.   
      
   Looks like I can disable HPET in the BIOS as OS/2 based operating    
   systems almost certainly fall in the "older operating systems cannot use    
   this" category.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
      
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