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

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  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
hmm, I looked at arch/mips/dec/time.c, and I'm not sure to understand it.
Could you give me more info ?

To be sure we're taking about the same thing, I'm calling "hpt" the timer
in CP0 _only_. If you have others timers let's call them "timer".

> where you can have one of these:
>
> 1. No HPT at all.
What's generating the tick interrupt in this case ?

> 2. HPT in the chipset.
What do you mean by chipset ? the DS1287 ?

> 3. HPT in CP0.
Reading the dec code, it seems that whatever the case, you don't use
the hpt cp0 as tick interrupt source. It's only use as a clock source.
If so, why ?

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              Franck