From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zhu, Yi" Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:45:49 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] RTC support on ia64 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 Thanks both! I got realfeel4 work! -yi > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Piel [mailto:Eric.Piel@Bull.Net] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:15 PM > To: Zhu, Yi > Cc: Joel GUILLET; linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] RTC support on ia64 > > > "Zhu, Yi" wrote: > > > > Hi Joel, > > > > Do you have the ia64 rtc patch for 2.4 kernel? I need the rtc > > driver to test the latency with realfeel. > > Hello Yi, > Joel was a trainee, so he's not here anymore and I'm the new one. > > We do not have any 2.4 version but the backport shouldn't be > hard. When > Joel did this patch it was also in order to get realfeel working. > The point is that it seems on ia64 measuring latencies using > the perfmon > capabilities of the processor is a much better idea. > > Peter Chubb even developed a small realfeel equivalent that > does exactly > that! It should work both on 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. You can > find it on the > perfmon homepage and at this address: > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/patches/realfeel4.c > > Cheers > Eric >