On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:21, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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. Is it possible to test for that capability being present?
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