linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906261827490.2767@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [ Although it is beyond me why ABP was done - why wasnt HPET good
>   enough? HPET can do per CPU clockevents too and it's just as 
>   off-chip (and hence fundamentally slow) as ABP. ]

Welcome to the wonderful world of embedded systems. Just have a peek
into arch/[arm/powerpc/mips] to see what's coming up to us with full
force. I would not be surprised when we see an x86 system sharing the
device driver for i2c or whatever with an ARM SoC in the foreseable
future.

Thanks,

	tglx


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