Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:40:43 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > perhaps allowing a single higher frequency, or allowing just any > frequency, is pretty much the same task, and doesn't > look achievable within the currently existing > timer API anyway
Lots of things aren't doable with the current timer API, hence all the recent work on dynamic tick. This driver would actually be a perfect test for the dynamic tick system as your PC speaker driver basically implements its own dynamic tick mechanism. Just replace all the PIT reprogramming with itimers.
Lee
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