Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:24 +0000 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0) |
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:17:41PM +0000, naveen yadav wrote: > we do not want to use LPAE featue and virtulisation feature of cortex -A15, > then still I need generic timers ?. or they are used in virtulasiation ..
The generic timers are useful on SMP as that's the only way to get local timers on A15. Otherwise, just use a global timer and IPIs (they are also useful in a virtualised environment but that depends on the hypervisor).
-- Catalin
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