[PATCH] x86-64: Try multiple timer variants in check_timer

Instead of adding all kinds of more quirks try various timer
routing variants in check_timer.

In particular this tries to handle quirks from:
- Nvidia NF2-4 reference BIOS: wrong timer override
- Asus: Wrong timer override but no HPET table
- ATI: require timer disabled in 8259
- Some boards: require timer enabled in 8259

We just try many of the the known variants in the hopefully right order
in check_timer.

Trying pin 0/2 on Nvidia suggested by Tim Hockin.

TBD Experimental. Needs a lot of testing

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c
index 68273bff58cc..fb0c6da41b7e 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c
@@ -69,11 +69,6 @@ static void nvidia_bugs(void)
 
 static void ati_bugs(void)
 {
-        if (timer_over_8254 == 1) {
-                timer_over_8254 = 0;
-                printk(KERN_INFO
-                "ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.\n");
-        }
 }
 
 struct chipset {