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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   Pete!   
      
   On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:05:20 UTC, Peter Brown    
   wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   I should have thought about this as well...yes, my system has HPET disabled. I    
   did a bit of reading into this a few months back in my search to produce a   
   most    
   stable OS2 SMP machine...and I saw no advantage of leaving this enabled.   
      
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