Re: [PATCH 8/8] ARM: smp: Remove local timer API

[Mark Rutland]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 04:25:00PM +0000, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:15:45AM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > One thing that struck me when I was fiddling with the broadcast mechanism was
> > that it should be possible to have a generic dummy timer implementation. As
> > long as the architecture calls notifiers at the appropriate times, it should
> > look like any other timer driver (apart from not touching any hardware). It just
> > needs to depend on ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST.
> > 
> > I believe it shouldn't be too difficult to implement, though I may be blind to
> > some problems.
> > 
> It would be nice to have a generic dummy timer driver, quite a few
> architectures could use it directly already. If no one beats me to it,
> I'll give it a go as I convert the SH stuff over to using
> ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST and killing off the local timer API there.
> 

I've had a quick go at writing a generic timer driver. I've not had a chance to
test it, and there are a couple of things that are up for discussion (e.g. what
should the rating be) but I think we want something very close to this.

Thanks,
Mark.

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