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SubjectRE: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2
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>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:12:52 -0700, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> said:

Venkatesh> The part of the patch that does the HPET initialization
Venkatesh> for timer interrupt, and general HPET registers
Venkatesh> read/write/programming can be common across
Venkatesh> architectures. However, different archs diverge, when it
Venkatesh> comes to gettimeofday-timer implementation (tsc, pit,
Venkatesh> itc, hpet, ) and we may still have to keep that part
Venkatesh> architecture specific.

Is the time_interpolator interface provided by timex.h sufficient for
HPET timer-interrupt needs? I think It ought to be. If so, perhaps
all that's missing is that x86 needs to be switched over to that
interface?

--david
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