Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/14] m68k: atari: Convert to clocksource API

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 05:02:47 EST


On Nov 20 2018, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes you already see the same as I see: this chip MK68901 has
> no less than four timers. I bet the kernel is just using one of them,
> out of habit.

Note that not all timers can be used freely. Some of them are hardwired
to generate the clock for the serial interfaces.

Andreas.

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