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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] powerpc 2.6.16-rt17: to build on powerpc w/ RT
From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:56:23 -0700
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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 15:08 +0900, Tsutomu OWA wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:11:47 +1000
> > Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> said:
> 
> > I would be very surprised if this is all that is required for
> > CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME to work correctly on powerpc.  Have you verified
> > that the CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME stuff works correctly on powerpc and
> > provides all the features provided by the current implementation?
> 
>   Well, probably no as you say so.
> 
>   What I did for CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME is just to fix a compile
> error and to see if the kernel boots or not.  As I mentioned,
> it's experimental and is posted to see whether I'm moving in the
> right direction or not.
> 
>   I'm afraid I have not yet looked into any generic time related 
> features/implementations.  Looks like generic time related things
> should be on the ToDo list.

You might take a peek at the patch set here:
http://sr71.net/~jstultz/tod/ for a somewhat rough powerpc conversion to
CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME.

thanks
-john