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Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 19:36:01 -0500
From: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
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Subject: Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver
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Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed.

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> Cc: + Mike
> 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> > altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)?  It's the only driver that
> > register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> > it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> > anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
> >