On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:13, Jiri Bohac wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Thursday 01 February 2007 10:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > VXTIME_PMTMR will be replaced by a more generic "Master Timer" > > > > This means we have no fallback if something goes wrong with the Master > > timer? > > > > A little risky. > > No, either HPET or PM Timer will become the Master Timer (elected > on boot). Master timer is just an abstraction of these, so the > rest of the timekeeping code needn't care which hardware timer is > being used. That's why the VXTIME_PMTMR mode is not needed.
But there is no option for the user to force so, is there? -Andi - 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/
