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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:15:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/14] m68k: mac: Convert to clocksource API
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:22 AM Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

> Add a platform clocksource by adapting the existing arch_gettimeoffset
> implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>

As noted for the Amiga CIA (which is pretty much a sibling to this
MOS 6522 VIA) this chip also has two counters and could use one
as clocksource and the other as clock event.

Again I bet this is just using one timer out of habit.

It will be an easy feat to make a clean clocksource+clock event
for this hardware as well once this refactoring is complete.

Yours,
Linus Walleij