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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/moorestown: add moorestown platform flags
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:32:42 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0906261827490.2767@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626142937.GA19477@elte.hu>

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> [ Although it is beyond me why ABP was done - why wasnt HPET good
>   enough? HPET can do per CPU clockevents too and it's just as 
>   off-chip (and hence fundamentally slow) as ABP. ]

Welcome to the wonderful world of embedded systems. Just have a peek
into arch/[arm/powerpc/mips] to see what's coming up to us with full
force. I would not be surprised when we see an x86 system sharing the
device driver for i2c or whatever with an ARM SoC in the foreseable
future.

Thanks,

	tglx



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-26 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-26  0:14 Pan, Jacob jun
2009-06-26  7:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26  9:13   ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26  9:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 10:16       ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 11:04         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 11:56           ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 12:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 12:33               ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 12:51                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 13:34                   ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 14:44                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 14:29                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 16:32                   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2009-06-26 16:54                     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-30  6:35                       ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-01 17:25                         ` Jesse Barnes
2009-07-01 20:48                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 15:00           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 16:51   ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-26 18:45     ` Ingo Molnar

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