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

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

[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 -
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