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SubjectRe: device driver for the SGI system clock, mmtimer
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The timer hardware was designed around the multimedia timer specification by Intel
> but to my knowledge only SGI has implemented that standard. The driver was written
> by Jesse Barnes.

As far as I can see, drivers/char/hpet.c talks to the same hardware.
HP sx1000 machines (and probably others) also implement the HPET.

I think you should look at adding your functionality to hpet.c
rather than adding a new driver.
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