Re: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2

[David Mosberger-Tang]

>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:50:09 +0200, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> said:

  Venkatesh> Resending the patch. A major change from previous version
  Venkatesh> is elimination of fixmap for HPET. Based on Andrew
  Venkatesh> Morton's suggestion, we have a new hook in init/main.c
  Venkatesh> for late_time_init(), at which time we can use ioremap,
  Venkatesh> in place of fixmap.  Impact on other archs:
  Venkatesh> Calibrate_delay() (and hence loops_per_jiffy calculation)
  Venkatesh> has moved down in main.c, from after time_init() to after
  Venkatesh> kmem_cache_init().

  Venkatesh> All comments/feedbacks welcome.

How much is really architecture-specific?  HPET isn't x86-only so
sooner or later, we'll have to move it out of arch/i386 anyhow.

	--david
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