[PATCH 09/14] at91: switch pit timer to early platform devices

[Andrew Victor]

hi Russell,

>> I think it would be cleaner still if the "struct sys_timer" could
>> include a register-base-address field.  Russell?
>
> That's not really what all platforms want, and with the advent of
> clocksources and clock events, I think the sys_timer thing is mostly
> dead.

How would those systems initialize the system-timer?
An "init_timer" method in the machine-description?


> I've been thinking about killing it off for a while for those platforms
> using the GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS stuff.  From what I can see, the only
> real users of it are: acorn (riscpc), at91x40, clps711x, ebsa110,
> ep93xx, h720x, ixp2000, ixp23xx, ks8695, nuc93x, pnx4008, and samsung.
>
> It would be nice to get the modern stuff out of that converted to the
> clockevents/clocksource stuff - any chance of that happening for
> AT91x40?

The AT91x40 (ARM7) is maintained by Greg Ungerer.
Greg?


Regards,
  Andrew Victor