Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
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       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
       Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [ Although it is beyond me why ABP was done - why wasnt HPET good
>   enough? HPET can do per CPU clockevents too and it's just as 
>   off-chip (and hence fundamentally slow) as ABP. ]

Welcome to the wonderful world of embedded systems. Just have a peek
into arch/[arm/powerpc/mips] to see what's coming up to us with full
force. I would not be surprised when we see an x86 system sharing the
device driver for i2c or whatever with an ARM SoC in the foreseable
future.

Thanks,

	tglx


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