linux-kernel - Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1705231726531.2740@nanos>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 17:27:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:     Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>, Nate Zimmer <nzimmer@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <rja@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
Subject: Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

Cc: + Mike

> Hi folks,
> 
> what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)?  It's the only driver that
> register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
>