On Saturday 03 January 2009 18:44:58 Robert Hancock wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > For the record, the reason I can't just pregenerate all these suckers on > > a system that's got an arbitrary precision calculator (ala dc) and then > > just ship the resulting header files (more or less the what the first > > version of that first patch did) is that some architectures (arm omap and > > and arm at91) allow you to enter arbitrary HZ values in kconfig. (Their > > help text says that in many cases values that aren't powers of two won't > > work, but nothing enforces this.) So if we didn't have the capability to > > dynamically generate these, you could enter a .config value that would > > break the build. > > Is there a good reason that these archs allow you enter arbitrary HZ > values? Not that I've noticed, no. But you should ask Thomas Gleixner about that about that, I'm not a domain expert... > The use case for using custom HZ values at all nowadays seems > fairly low now that dynticks is around (if that arch supports it > anyway), let alone being able to specify wierd obscure values for it. And high performance event timers. A kernel can have more than one time source these days... Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
