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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:26:52 +0000
Subject: Re: high resolution timer on ia64
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:04:30PM +0000, kallol@comcast.net wrote:
> Hello,
>            Is there an official patch for high resolution timer support
> on IA64?

Does CONFIG_HPET cover what you need?
That's already included in the 2.6.8.1 kernels.

| HPET - High Precision Event Timer (HPET) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?
| 
| If you say Y here, you will have a miscdevice named "/dev/hpet/".  Each
| open selects one of the timers supported by the HPET.  The timers are
| non-periodioc and/or periodic.

hth,
grant