Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:45:10 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <Marc.Zyngier@arm.com>, david@lang.hm,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Detlef Vollmann <dv@vollmann.ch>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
        David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:10:24PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> The only issue I see is the clock-events implemented using
> local timers capabilities in low power modes. The local timers
> won't be able wakeup CPU from DORMANT or OFF state and hence
> you will need an additional wakeup capable clock-event
> working together with the local timers using clock-notifiers.

So yet again, we have something that almost works but doesn't, and
we're going to have to have board-specific hacks to work around this.

This makes the architected timers totally *pointless*.
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