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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:39:36AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:

> Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  c0_compare = c0_count + mips_counter_frequency / HZ.
> > 
> > That's what the individual boards are currently doing themselves though that
> > should be done in generic code.
> > 
>
> Good idea.
> 
> The attached patch attempts to set the first interrupt. It should be benign 
> even if a system is not using CPU counter as timer interrupt.
> 
> I also updated the time.README, including a new section about implementation 
> on a SMP machine.

Applied though I think that this should also be done via start_secondary
that is we'll need some per_cpu_time_init analog to per_cpu_trap_init.
Also of course your change makes some cleanup possible as the initialization
no happens twice for a bunch of platforms.

  Ralf