Ingo Molnar wrote:

/For you/ it's certainly no big deal, you dont have to fix it up and you 
dont have to keep it flexible ;)
  

How flexible does it need to be?  Its a simple time source and event
driver.  How flexible does the pit driver need to be?  It's just a small
leaf node hanging off a large existing piece of kernel infrastructure.

and really, i'm not expecting miracles, i've never seen any hardware 
vendor argue /against/ support for their own hardware =B-)
  

And since when has it been kernel policy to argue against including a
well written, self-contained, vendor-provided driver for a piece of
hardware?

    J