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

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:47:37PM +0200, Andrew Victor wrote:
> 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 was thinking of an init_timekeeping() callback in the machine record
rather than having platforms provide a useless sys_timer structure, and
maybe having an ARM generic init_legacy_timekeeping() function for those
platforms which still use sys_timer() to put into the init_timekeeping()
hook.

I've not really firmed up the idea yet though.

Alternatively, if someone wants to come up with a better way to initialize
the clocksource and clock event stuff across all platforms...