From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 16:23:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] multimedia timer interface Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi Jesse, >>>>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:50:44 -0800, Jesse Barnes said: Jesse> David, we talked awhile back about a generic timer interface Jesse> that we could use on SN platforms as a non-drifting Jesse> replacement for the ITC. I've taken a look at the Intel Jesse> multimedia timer spec like you suggested and came up with the Jesse> following header file. I've implemented it on our system Jesse> with some glibc changes to the hp timing routines and things Jesse> seem to work fine. I'd like to get people's comments on the Jesse> ioctl interface though, because I'd like it to be useful on Jesse> other platforms as well. Looks like good stuff to me! I will have a couple of comments. Unless it's urgent, I'd like to work on this mid next week. Jesse> Also, do you need me to resend the salinfo patch I posted Jesse> awhile back or are you just waiting for the SAL spec to get Jesse> updated? I noticed it wasn't in the latest patch. Yes, please resend. I dropped the original patch because at that time the ITC drift bit wasn't settled yet. Thanks, --david