Jan Kiszka wrote: > Unless I'm utterly wrong, there are practically only two use cases > regarding the PIT: Either Linux has complete hold of it for clocksource > and/or clockevent usage, or the RT domain takes it over, also > completely. In both cases the RT domain does not need to use the > i8253_lock (see Xenomai).
Ack. So let's remove the hunks that harden this > lock for no good (upcoming 2.6.24 would otherwise require even > _extended_ patching). Patch addresses i386, but this cleanup should be > applicable to x86_64 likewise. > Our x86_64 port relies on having APIC+TSC, so we don't even care about the PIT anyway. Will merge, thanks. > Jan > -- Philippe. _______________________________________________ Adeos-main mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/adeos-main
