From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755535Ab2A0OZr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:25:47 -0500 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:58996 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755380Ab2A0OZp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:25:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:24 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: naveen yadav Cc: Greg KH , Russell King - ARM Linux , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0) Message-ID: <20120127142524.GD7757@arm.com> References: <20120127112434.GA7757@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:17:41PM +0000, naveen yadav wrote: > we do not want to use LPAE featue and virtulisation feature of cortex -A15, > then still I need generic timers ?. or they are used in virtulasiation .. The generic timers are useful on SMP as that's the only way to get local timers on A15. Otherwise, just use a global timer and IPIs (they are also useful in a virtualised environment but that depends on the hypervisor). -- Catalin