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Subject: Re: [RFC] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A1)
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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, john stultz wrote:

> +struct timesource_t {
> +	char* name;
> +	int priority;
> +	enum {
> +		TIMESOURCE_FUNCTION,
> +		TIMESOURCE_MMIO_32,
> +		TIMESOURCE_MMIO_64
> +	} type;
> +	cycle_t (*read_fnct)(void);
> +	void* ptr;
> +	cycle_t mask;
> +	u32 mult;
> +	u32 shift;
> +};

Maybe add TIMESOURCE_CPU or so? How can one specify a time source in a
cpu register?