Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200903310725.20652.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
Agreed (except that we probably cannot completely throw away the tick; IIRC there are cases in early startup when nothing else is available yet).
hrm, i can see that. but you agree that most use of ticks in common code can be converted to get_timer() ? on Blackfin systems (and it isnt alone going by
Yes, of course I do.
a grep), the ticks interface simply returns get_timer(0), so clearly we should be able to convert common code to all use get_timer(0). that'd leave the ticks interface as optional ... for the systems that need early time sources, they can implement/use it as they need without bringing down everyone else.
i wouldnt mind starting a patch series for post 2009.05 to clean this up ...
Excellent. Thanks in advance.
For BF or for all architectures?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk