From: Frans Pop <aragorn@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:21:50 +0200 > What are the reasons the code in second/timer.c was changed? > > That the sun4u_notimer support is still needed for a large class of > hardware out there has been demonstrated by my tests. You cannot write to the %tick register on some cpu variants, it can only be written by the hypervisor. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
