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

[David Mosberger-Tang]

>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:12:52 -0700, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx> 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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