Re: device driver for the SGI system clock, mmtimer

From: Bjorn Helgaas (bjorn.helgaas_at_hp.com)
Date: 09/16/04

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    To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:03:39 -0600

    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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