Support for HPET based timer - Take 2
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Venkatesh> Resending the patch. A major change from previous version Venkatesh> is elimination of fixmap for HPET. Based on Andrew Venkatesh> Morton's suggestion, we have a new hook in init/main.c Venkatesh> for late_time_init(), at which time we can use ioremap, Venkatesh> in place of fixmap. Impact on other archs:
Venkatesh> Calibrate_delay() (and hence loops_per_jiffy calculation) Venkatesh> has moved down in main.c, from after time_init() to after Venkatesh> kmem_cache_init().
Venkatesh> All comments/feedbacks welcome.
How much is really architecture-specific? HPET isn't x86-only so sooner or later, we'll have to move it out of arch/i386 anyhow.
--david