Re: [PATCH] ARM: TWD: Consolidate local timers support

[Catalin Marinas]

On 30 November 2010 22:16, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:31:05PM +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> This greatly reduces amount of platform-specific code, and thus
>> makes it easier to add local timers for new platforms.
>>
>> Technically, it's not very nice to place machine-specific (i.e.
>> local_timer_setup()) routine into the machine-agnostic code.
>> But the true thing is: currently all machines want the same thing.
>
> I've just been talking to someone this week about (presumably) non-TWD
> local timers.

FYI, Cortex-A15 comes with some architected timers different from the
current ones (specs publicly available in the same place as LPAE).
We'll push some patches at some point.

-- 
Catalin
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