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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:31:19 -0500

> I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight.   
> Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source?   
> I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side  
> that we could provide drivers for, I'm just not sure if that does  
> anything for anyone.

I'm in a similar situation on sparc64, so I'm interested in
this as well :-)