Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:59:46 -0700 | Subject | RE: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 | From | (David Mosberger-Tang) |
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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?
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