On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 11:49 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > That's part of the reason for the changes that I made to the clocksource > API . It makes it so instrumentation, with other things, can generically > read a low level cycle clock. Like on PPC you would read the > decrementer, and on x86 you would read the TSC . However, the > application has no idea what it's reading. Meant to say PowerPC uses the timebase clocksource. Sorry I've got to many architectures swirling around. Daniel - 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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