Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:31 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight.   
Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source?   
I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side  
that we could provide drivers for, I'm just not sure if that does  
anything for anyone.

Not necessarily for the tick/highres stuff, but clock events allows
other users as well to utilize such facilities. We have no users yet,
but there are drivers, which utilize special timer hardware with nice
#ifdeffery to allow the driver to be shared. This might be a useful
thing for such stuff.

	tglx