From: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2
Date: 28 Aug 2003 20:40:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ugk78xb07g.fsf@panda.mostang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pEGJ.73p.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:50:09 +0200, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> said:
Venkatesh> Resending the patch. A major change from previous version
Venkatesh> is elimination of fixmap for HPET. Based on Andrew
Venkatesh> Morton's suggestion, we have a new hook in init/main.c
Venkatesh> for late_time_init(), at which time we can use ioremap,
Venkatesh> in place of fixmap. Impact on other archs:
Venkatesh> Calibrate_delay() (and hence loops_per_jiffy calculation)
Venkatesh> has moved down in main.c, from after time_init() to after
Venkatesh> kmem_cache_init().
Venkatesh> All comments/feedbacks welcome.
How much is really architecture-specific? HPET isn't x86-only so
sooner or later, we'll have to move it out of arch/i386 anyhow.
--david
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[not found] <pEGJ.73p.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-29 3:40 ` David Mosberger-Tang [this message]
2003-09-06 19:04 [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-07 17:57 ` George Anzinger
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2003-08-30 16:26 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-29 23:58 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-09-05 22:26 ` George Anzinger
2003-08-29 16:12 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-30 4:59 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2003-08-28 23:41 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2003-08-29 18:23 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-29 21:03 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 21:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-31 22:24 ` Erik Andersen
2003-08-31 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05 22:19 ` George Anzinger
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