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-               High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux
-
-The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) hardware follows a specification
-by Intel and Microsoft, revision 1.
-
-Each HPET has one fixed-rate counter (at 10+ MHz, hence "High Precision")
-and up to 32 comparators.  Normally three or more comparators are provided,
-each of which can generate oneshot interrupts and at least one of which has
-additional hardware to support periodic interrupts.  The comparators are
-also called "timers", which can be misleading since usually timers are
-independent of each other ... these share a counter, complicating resets.
-
-HPET devices can support two interrupt routing modes.  In one mode, the
-comparators are additional interrupt sources with no particular system
-role.  Many x86 BIOS writers don't route HPET interrupts at all, which
-prevents use of that mode.  They support the other "legacy replacement"
-mode where the first two comparators block interrupts from 8254 timers
-and from the RTC.
-
-The driver supports detection of HPET driver allocation and initialization
-of the HPET before the driver module_init routine is called.  This enables
-platform code which uses timer 0 or 1 as the main timer to intercept HPET
-initialization.  An example of this initialization can be found in
-arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c.
-
-The driver provides a userspace API which resembles the API found in the
-RTC driver framework.  An example user space program is provided in
-file:samples/timers/hpet_example.c