Re: [PATCH 3/5] Deforest the function pointer jungle in the time code.

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:

> The current code doesn't automatically calibrate any hpt. It was
> really hard to guess which ones need that so now if you need to
> calibrate your hpt, then you have to call calibrate_hpt().

 You are wrong -- calibration is currently automatic if a platform 
provides a HPT, but has not set up its frequency:

                if (!mips_hpt_frequency)
                        mips_hpt_frequency = calibrate_hpt();

Which should normally be the case unless there is no way to do 
calibration, when a platform can provide a hardcoded value.  There is 
nothing to guess here.

 I'll have a look at your patches, but I hope you have got about the most 
interesting configuration right, which is the DEC platform, where you can 
have one of these:

1. No HPT at all.

2. HPT in the chipset.

3. HPT in CP0.

depending on the configuration as determined at the run time, with no 
predefined frequency in the cases #2 and #3.

  Maciej