linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

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Message-Id: <20070518.132734.34602464.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 13:27:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	galak@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, matt@...esi-usa.com, sshtylyov@...mvista.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, r.schwebel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

From: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:31:19 -0500

> I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight.   
> Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source?   
> I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side  
> that we could provide drivers for, I'm just not sure if that does  
> anything for anyone.

I'm in a similar situation on sparc64, so I'm interested in
this as well :-)
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