Tyan S3992-E: hpet no longer working

[Alexander Motin]

Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> Sure .. that said, the BIOS I use is the last official release for this
> board (Sept 2009) and not even a more recent beta-release is available.
> 
> I would expect reporting a disabled device which cannot be enabled via
> de BIOS a bug deserving a newer release.
> 
> Anyway, this bug isn't very harmful for me, but the non-hpet
> timecounters don't seem that fun either :
> 
>  # uptime
>    10:27PM  up 2 days,  5:44
> 
>  # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware kern.timecounter.choice 
>    kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-safe
>    kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0) ACPI-safe(850) dummy(-1000000)
> 
>  # vmstat -i | fgrep cpu:
>    cpu0:timer                      38599321        199
>    cpu6:timer                       2151003         11
>    cpu1:timer                       7121075         36
>    cpu3:timer                       1808269          9
>    cpu5:timer                       3832463         19
>    cpu2:timer                       2399988         12
>    cpu7:timer                       2013444         10
>    cpu4:timer                      21630368        111
> 
>   (default HZ ....)
> 
> Maybe I should try downgrading the BIOS?

So what here seems not funny to you? Lower timer interrupt rate is not a
bug but feature of 9-CURRENT.

-- 
Alexander Motin