Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264382AbTH2Dki (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:40:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264388AbTH2Dki (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:40:38 -0400 Received: from adsl-66-127-195-58.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.127.195.58]:2285 "EHLO panda.mostang.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264382AbTH2Dkh (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:40:37 -0400 To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHSET][2.6-test4][0/6]Support for HPET based timer - Take 2 References: From: David Mosberger-Tang Date: 28 Aug 2003 20:40:35 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1038 Lines: 17 >>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:50:09 +0200, "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/