linux-kernel - Re: Programming the apic when no external to cpu timer is present?

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Message-ID: <20080810073207.GB7249@lenovo>
Date:	Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:32:07 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Bradley Hanna <brahan.ml@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Programming the apic when no external to cpu timer is present?

[Cyrill Gorcunov - Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:28:38AM +0400]
| [Bradley Hanna - Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 08:19:43PM -0400]
| | I am working with an embedded testing board that has no timer external
| | to the cpu other than an rtc.  How does linux go about programming the
| | local cpu timer (apic) to raise hardware interrupts?
| | 
| | thanks for your patience,
| | 
| | brahan
| | 
| 
| you could take a look on apic_(32|64).c. Here is the
| function you need I hope - setup_APIC_timer
| 
| 		- Cyrill -

oops - it should be lapic_timer_setup :)

		- Cyrill -
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