Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268142AbUIPQIs (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268176AbUIPQIG (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:08:06 -0400 Received: from atlrel6.hp.com ([156.153.255.205]:28888 "EHLO atlrel6.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268142AbUIPQDv (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:03:51 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: device driver for the SGI system clock, mmtimer Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:03:39 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesse Barnes , Bob Picco , venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409161003.39258.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 15 Christoph Lameter wrote: > The timer hardware was designed around the multimedia timer specification by Intel > but to my knowledge only SGI has implemented that standard. The driver was written > by Jesse Barnes. As far as I can see, drivers/char/hpet.c talks to the same hardware. HP sx1000 machines (and probably others) also implement the HPET. I think you should look at adding your functionality to hpet.c rather than adding a new driver. - 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/