Messages in this thread | | | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: device driver for the SGI system clock, mmtimer | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:03:39 -0600 |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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