From: Frans Pop <aragorn@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:37:43 +0200 > 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? Not easily but yes, but the old code was buggy in other regards as well. It would need to be rewritten. - 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
