kern/45060: hpet(4) is only a timecounter(9)

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

>Number:         45060
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       hpet(4) is only a timecounter(9)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 14 14:10:00 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Jukka Ruohonen
>Release:        5.99.53
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
>Description:

The hpet(4) device is currently used in NetBSD only as a timecounter(9).

>How-To-Repeat:

Code inspection.

>Fix:

Implement interrupts, per-cpu support, etc. See e.g. FreeBSD.