Re: [PATCH] clockevents/drivers/i8253: Do not zero timer counter in shutdown

[David Woodhouse]

On 1 August 2024 22:22:56 BST, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 01 2024 at 21:49, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 22:00 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> > I justify my cowardice on the basis that it doesn't *matter* if a
>>> > hardware implementation is still toggling the IRQ pin; in that case
>>> > it's only a few irrelevant transistors which are busy, and it doesn't
>>> > translate to steal time.
>>> 
>>> On real hardware it translates to power...
>>
>> Perhaps, although I'd guess it's a negligible amount. Still, happy to
>> be brave and make it unconditional. Want a new version of the patch?
>
>Let'ss fix the shutdown sequence first (See Michaels latest mail) and
>then do the clockevents_i8253_init() change on top.

Makes sense.