CONFIG_HPET: HPET - High Precision Event Timer

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_HPET:

• prompt: HPET - High Precision Event Timer
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_X86 ) && ( CONFIG_ACPI )
• defined in drivers/char/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.8–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12, 6.13-rc+HEAD

Help text

If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/". Each open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET. The timers are non-periodic and/or periodic.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb acpi "PNP0103" : CONFIG_HPET : drivers/char/hpet.c # in 2.6.23–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12, 6.13-rc+HEAD

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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