Re: [rfc][patch] API for timer hooks

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On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 20:21 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> perhaps allowing a single higher frequency, or allowing just any
> frequency, is pretty much the same task, and doesn't
> look achievable within the currently existing
> timer API anyway

Lots of things aren't doable with the current timer API, hence all the
recent work on dynamic tick.  This driver would actually be a perfect
test for the dynamic tick system as your PC speaker driver basically
implements its own dynamic tick mechanism.  Just replace all the PIT
reprogramming with itimers.

Lee 
 

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