linux-kernel - Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Message-ID: <20070711230337.GC4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:03:37 -0700
From:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

* Thomas Gleixner (tglx@...utronix.de) wrote:
> The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply
> because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling
> HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the
> HPET one in a separate step.

The timer specific changes (i.e. the merges between arches) can be
done more slowly, but the setup above is basically where I started,
and it was already broken on one of my test boxes.  Anyway, I'll help
you however I can, because it's important to me to get this merged.

thanks,
-chris
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