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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] x86_64: enable clockevents and dynticks
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> Have you checked, if we could share the code between i386 and x86_64 at
> least for PIT and HPET. I'm not sure about the local APIC, but I think
> it might be doable as well.

Not for PIT. I don't want all the broken ancient hardware workarounds on x86-64.
HPET might be doable, but would need quite some work.

-Andi