From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:22:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [patch] 2.4 timer_interrupt/gettimeoffset machvec 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 On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:53:20AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > Clearly you need to establish the relationship between the external > clock and time-of-day somewhere, but I'm not so sure this should be > done in the arch-specific timer interrupt handler. I suspect you > really want to do it where the time-of-day gets updated. Also, I I'd like for it to be there too. Jes and I discussed this on irc and I think he's going to take a stab at it. > think this should be treated much more as a driver issue rather than a > platform-issue (suppose someone plugged in an adapter card providing a > low-latency, atomic accurracy & high precision lock, you'd presumably > want to be able to use that card in favor of whatever other hardware > might be there. Agreed. It would be nice to have that kind of flexibility. Thanks, Jesse