From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932701AbXGKVxf (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:53:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760585AbXGKVx1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:53:27 -0400 Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:32897 "EHLO sous-sol.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756506AbXGKVx1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:53:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:52:19 -0700 From: Chris Wright To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Linus Torvalds , Chris Wright Subject: Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 Message-ID: <20070711215219.GY4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070711174252.GA16793@elte.hu> <20070711211638.GE18767@one.firstfloor.org> <1184190401.12353.152.camel@chaos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1184190401.12353.152.camel@chaos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Thomas Gleixner (tglx@linutronix.de) wrote: > > If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't > > happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible > > here. > > There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or > you convert it not. Indeed, about the only thing can be done is to take a slower approach to converging the arch specific implementations (hpet, pit, etc). thanks, -chris