On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:43 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > As a note, arm and mips both register their clocksources during > > time_init() instead of using initcalls. > > That's actually platform-specific. If there's only one possible > clocksource, that'd be the normal answer. > > Otherwise, there can be multiple clocksources just like any other > architecture. Maybe there's an always-present 32 KHz counter, and > a bank of timers that can run at higher frequences ... but those > may not be available for timekeeping on all boards, maybe because > they're used for something else (motor control, etc) or because the > system has prioritized battery life over timestamp precision. > > So don't assume any platform doesn't use clocksource initcalls.
What does your OMAP clocksource do now ? I thought one of the changes that you made was to have both 32k and mpu both registered .. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
