linux-kernel - Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0)

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Message-ID: <20120127142524.GD7757@arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:25:24 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	naveen yadav <yad.naveen@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0)

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:17:41PM +0000, naveen yadav wrote:
> we do not want to use LPAE featue and virtulisation feature of cortex -A15,
>  then still I need generic timers  ?. or they are used in virtulasiation ..

The generic timers are useful on SMP as that's the only way to get local
timers on A15. Otherwise, just use a global timer and IPIs (they are
also useful in a virtualised environment but that depends on the
hypervisor).

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Catalin
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