From: Sam Creasey <sammy@sammy.net>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC 13/13] m68k: mac: convert to generic clockevent
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:27:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201116232703.GV14088@anhedonia-3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.23.453.2011061343030.13@nippy.intranet>
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 01:52:01PM +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > > > > The arm/rpc timer seems to be roughly in the same category as most
> > > > > of the m68k ones or the i8253 counter on a PC. It's possible that
> > > > > some of them could use the same logic as
> > > > > drivers/clocksource/i8253.o as long as there is any hardware
> > > > > oneshot mode.
> > > >
> > > > There appear to be 15 platforms in that category. 4 have no
> > > > clocksource besides the jiffies clocksource, meaning there's no
> > > > practical alternative to using a periodic tick, like you did in your
> > > > RFC patch:
> > > >
> > > > arch/m68k/apollo/config.c
> > > > arch/m68k/q40/q40ints.c
> > > > arch/m68k/sun3/sun3ints.c
> > > > arch/m68k/sun3x/time.c
> > >
> > > Do any of these have users? I'm fairly sure sun3x has never worked in
> > > mainline, sun3 seems to still need the same few patches it did 20
> > > years ago. I couldn't find much about Linux on Apollo or q40, the
> > > information on the web for either of them seems to all be for
> > > linux-2.4 kernels.
> >
> > They probably don't have any users.
>
> I have access to several Sun 3 machines but no time to work on that port,
> unfortunately.
>
> Are these 4 platforms (those with no clocksource besides the "jiffies"
> clocksource) the only reason for CONFIG_TIME_LOW_RES on m68k?
Sun3x was probably at least as close (if not closer) than Sun3 to
working in mainline back in the day, but unfortunately I'm in the same
place as Finn... I've got the hardware, but time is harder to come
by.
-- Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-08 15:46 [PATCH 00/13] Clean up legacy clock tick users Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 01/13] timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 22:18 ` Finn Thain
2020-10-10 20:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 02/13] ia64: convert to legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 03/13] ARM: rpc: use legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 04/13] parisc: " Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 05/13] m68k: coldfire: use legacy_timer_tick() Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 12:53 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-10-09 13:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 06/13] m68k: split heartbeat out of timer function Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 07/13] m68k: sun3/sun3c: use legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 08/13] m68k: m68328: use legacy_timer_tick() Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-12 15:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 20:33 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 09/13] m68k: change remaining timers to legacy_timer_tick Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 10/13] m68k: remove timer_interrupt() function Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 11/13] timekeeping: remove xtime_update Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-12 13:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 20:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [PATCH 12/13] timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabled Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-12 13:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-08 15:46 ` [RFC 13/13] m68k: mac: convert to generic clockevent Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-09 22:21 ` Finn Thain
2020-10-10 18:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-15 1:18 ` Finn Thain
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a2ymv79j1edtJ983-VgjtxvT_6co7V0VRnHzcneW+0ZtA@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-18 0:54 ` Finn Thain
[not found] ` <CAK8P3a3i6cum_9xGgsbxjXXvbRsP8Po5qLZ0Agb3c4gZTKC9GQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-10-23 9:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-25 12:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-11-06 2:52 ` Finn Thain
2020-11-16 23:27 ` Sam Creasey [this message]
2020-10-30 0:41 ` Finn Thain
2020-10-30 13:12 ` Greg Ungerer
2020-11-06 3:12 ` Finn Thain
2020-10-12 22:18 ` [PATCH 00/13] Clean up legacy clock tick users Linus Walleij
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