As the Soekris net6501 and other e6xx based systems do not have
any ACPI implementation, HPET won't get enabled.
This patch enables HPET on such platforms.
[ 0.430149] pci 0000:00:01.0: Force enabled HPET at 0xfed00000
[ 0.644838] HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
Original patch by Peter Neubauer (http://www.mail-archive.com/soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com/msg06462.html)
slightly modified by Conrad Kostecki <ck@conrad-kostecki.de> and massaged
accoring to Thomas Gleixners <tglx@linutronix.de> by me.
Suggested-by: Conrad Kostecki <ck@conrad-kostecki.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@lsexperts.de>
Cc: Peter Neubauer <pneubauer@bluerwhite.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5412D3A5.2030909@lsexperts.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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