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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Jonas Diemer <diemer@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA 686 timer bugfix incomplete
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 09:21:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BEC109C.1EEDBA71@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E161ydI-000178-00@the-village.bc.nu>

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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Me thinks the real solution is the ACPI pm timer.  3 times the
> > resolution of the PIT and you can not stop it.  The high-res-timers
> > patch will allow you to use this as the time keeper and just use the PIT
> > to generate interrupts.
> 
> For awkward boxes you can use the PIT, for good boxes we can use rdtsc or
> eventually the ACPI timers when running with ACPI

I am attempting to use the ACPI timer without waiting for or running
ACPI.  After all it is there if you can find it.

George

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-09 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-07 11:50 VIA 686 timer bugfix incomplete Jonas Diemer
2001-11-07 12:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-07 19:25   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-07 19:48     ` Jonas Diemer
2001-11-07 20:14       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-07 22:32         ` Neale Banks
2001-11-08  8:02           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-08  9:21             ` Jonas Diemer
2001-11-08 20:08               ` Vojtech Pavlik
     [not found]                 ` <20011108221751.5273484e.diemer@gmx.de>
2001-11-08 21:22                   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-08 21:30                 ` george anzinger
2001-11-08 23:30                   ` Alan Cox
2001-11-09  8:34                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-09 17:21                     ` george anzinger [this message]
2001-11-07 19:29   ` Steve Underwood
2001-11-08 20:11     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-11-09  2:57       ` Steve Underwood
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2001-11-09 19:19 Grover, Andrew

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