Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757884Ab0LBPYT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:24:19 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:58167 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757856Ab0LBPYR (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:24:17 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=VBjpZuNHstdcw3g2PBzS8PzhKp5xpCqUWtDcZ8vrszyg5rihLphJPyBDOvTRS4bcF+ GJ7rXKbmUW4ac9rTJgHzz4wUA36B7MUvs68HKHWNN6qMgt+BZ8TzUlJvwHaZGQ7BnOXf DqT0OWY4odq/ev4J9aQ9NGoMaCuDINxEIW7MM= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101130221615.GA9424@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20101130173105.GA26929@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> <20101130221615.GA9424@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:24:16 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: nYip0PpNYaUeIaRziXpKLacbxos Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: TWD: Consolidate local timers support From: Catalin Marinas To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Anton Vorontsov , Paul Walmsley , Kukjin Kim , Benoit Cousson , Srinidhi Kasagar , Tony Lindgren , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, Santosh Shilimkar , Colin Cross , Varun Swara , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 24 On 30 November 2010 22:16, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:31:05PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote: >> This greatly reduces amount of platform-specific code, and thus >> makes it easier to add local timers for new platforms. >> >> Technically, it's not very nice to place machine-specific (i.e. >> local_timer_setup()) routine into the machine-agnostic code. >> But the true thing is: currently all machines want the same thing. > > I've just been talking to someone this week about (presumably) non-TWD > local timers. FYI, Cortex-A15 comes with some architected timers different from the current ones (specs publicly available in the same place as LPAE). We'll push some patches at some point. -- Catalin -- 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/