Re: No 100 HZ timer !

schwidefsky
2001-04-10T07:32:17Z

>Its worth doing even on the ancient x86 boards with the PIT. It does
require
>some driver changes since
>
>
> while(time_before(jiffies, we_explode))
> poll_things();
>
>no longer works
On S/390 we have a big advantage here. Driver code of this kind does not
exist.
That makes it a lot easier for us compared to other architectures. As I
said in
the original posting, the patch I have is working fine for S/390.

blue skies,
Martin

Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
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