Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Chris Wright]

* Thomas Gleixner (tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply
> because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling
> HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the
> HPET one in a separate step.

The timer specific changes (i.e. the merges between arches) can be
done more slowly, but the setup above is basically where I started,
and it was already broken on one of my test boxes.  Anyway, I'll help
you however I can, because it's important to me to get this merged.

thanks,
-chris
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