From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261240AbTH3E7x (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:59:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261430AbTH3E7x (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:59:53 -0400 Received: from adsl-66-127-195-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.127.195.58]:58511 "EHLO panda.mostang.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261240AbTH3E7w (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:59:52 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16208.12098.248708.643581@panda.mostang.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:59:46 -0700 To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Cc: "David Mosberger-Tang" , Subject: RE: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: David.Mosberger@acm.org X-URL: http://www.mostang.com/~davidm/ From: davidm@mostang.com (David Mosberger-Tang) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:12:52 -0700, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" said: Venkatesh> The part of the patch that does the HPET initialization Venkatesh> for timer interrupt, and general HPET registers Venkatesh> read/write/programming can be common across Venkatesh> architectures. However, different archs diverge, when it Venkatesh> comes to gettimeofday-timer implementation (tsc, pit, Venkatesh> itc, hpet, ) and we may still have to keep that part Venkatesh> architecture specific. Is the time_interpolator interface provided by timex.h sufficient for HPET timer-interrupt needs? I think It ought to be. If so, perhaps all that's missing is that x86 needs to be switched over to that interface? --david