Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On 4/6/2011 3:46 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 2011/4/5 Santosh Shilimkar<santosh.shilimkar@xxxxxx>:
> > [Me]
> > > (And third it will also eventually need to hook into the timer-based
> > > delay framework that I think Nokia is working on to be really
> > > useful, else all delays become unpredictable.)
> > Do you mean udelay()/mdelay() here ?
>
> Yes. Stephen Boyd from Qualcomm has floated patches to fix it for the
> ARM architecture, I just pushed him again. We use it in our
> ST-Ericsson products.
I remember the post.

> Ideally you'd want that to go along with the A15 timer stuff so that this
> monotonic high-precision timer is also used for udelay()/mdelay().
The A15 counter which is always available and running can be used
to emulate this.

Regards
Santosh
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