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From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/14] m68k: atari: Convert to clocksource API
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Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:02:35 +0100
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On Nov 20 2018, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:

> Yes you already see the same as I see: this chip MK68901 has
> no less than four timers. I bet the kernel is just using one of them,
> out of habit.

Note that not all timers can be used freely.  Some of them are hardwired
to generate the clock for the serial interfaces.

Andreas.

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