[PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boards

Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because
they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support.
Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that
don't have HPET, but need a timer override.

We don't know yet how to handle this transparently,
but at least add a command line option to force the timer override
and let them boot.

Cc: len.brown@intel.com

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

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/acpi.h b/include/asm-i386/acpi.h
index 6016632d032f..c80b3a94511a 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/acpi.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/acpi.h
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ extern int acpi_gsi_to_irq(u32 gsi, unsigned int *irq);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC
 extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
+extern int acpi_use_timer_override;
 #endif
 
 static inline void acpi_noirq_set(void) { acpi_noirq = 1; }
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h b/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h
index ed59aa4c6ff9..9d1916e59c04 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/acpi.h
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ extern u8 x86_acpiid_to_apicid[];
 #define ARCH_HAS_POWER_INIT 1
 
 extern int acpi_skip_timer_override;
+extern int acpi_use_timer_override;
 
 #endif /*__KERNEL__*/