In i386 architecture, there are five timers as candidates in the selection of "cur_timer." I feel among the five only two types can be used as Kernel base timer, HPET and PIT. Kernel base timer is the timer trigger timer_interrupt() periodically. Namely, the timer installed on IRQ 0 in i386 architecture. Is the above understanding correct? Particularly I want to confirm which timers can be used as Kernel base timer. Thanks. Feng,Dong - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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