Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 00:36 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> There are no other clock event devices in a PC system at the moment
> and /proc/interrupt does not care, whether the interrupt was setup for a
> clock event device or something else. It displays the name which is
> given in the irqaction struct and does not care what it means. I did not
> change the name in the IRQ#0 setup, so it still displays "timer" (which
> can either be PIT or HPET), but this is something the interrupt layer
> does not know and does not care about.

So your saying the "timer" entry in /proc/interrupts can be either the
HPET timer, the PIT timer? Mine says "IO-APIC-edge" which does that map
to? It's going though the io-apic but it's still the pit ?

Daniel

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