From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: RE: [PATCH v3 1/4] Add correlated clocksource deriving system time from an auxiliary clocksource Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 10:46:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1440183128-1384-1-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> <1440183128-1384-2-git-send-email-christopher.s.hall@intel.com> <20150904151021.GF18489@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150904151743.GB16862@localhost.localdomain> <20150904154133.GI18489@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Richard Cochran , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "john.stultz@linaro.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org" To: "Hall, Christopher S" Return-path: Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:57451 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750838AbbIEIru (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Sep 2015 04:47:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, Hall, Christopher S wrote: > > Right, but we still do not know how that is going to be used. And > > that's the key question. As long as that is not answered all can do is > > wild guessing. > > It's not wild guessing. We do have it working on other OSs and have > a pretty good idea of how it will work. The DSP firmware will be > largely identical for Linux. I think now, we have a chicken and egg > problem. You have a totally different problem. You are just refusing to explain how all that stuff is supposed to work and what kind of functionality you need exactly. Is it that hard to describe the technical requirements and the presumably assbackwards restrictions of the firmware? Thanks, tglx