UEFI Clock

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Nov 14 20:36:18 EST 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Loc Ho <lho at apm.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I will be looking into covering the clock driver to support UEFI.
> Before I do this, can someone explain to me how x86 system handle each
> IP clock as I don't see such thing?

Most of it is handled in firmware and/or via ACPI.

In some cases the clocks are handled per driver instead, i.e. graphics
drivers have their own clock management for their part of the system,
etc.


-Olof



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