Hi,
On Sun, 13 May 2007 19:36:12 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 21:23 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> >> Does this mean that on even an older
>> >> boards (without acpi at all) the hrtimers won't work?
>> > Not if PIT is the only clocksource available.
>> So you mean it can work without both the pm_timer and hpet? Sorry for
>> bothering you too much, but I am trying to use the hrtimers in my
>> driver module, so I'd like to know all the corner-cases.
>
> It does _NOT_ work without pm_timer or hpet for the reasons explained
> before.
there something I don't understand : "pm_timer or hpet" aren't
clockevent ?
Without acpi there should be still pit and tsc as clocksource ?
Also while talking about clockevent why rtc couldn't be used for that ?
Thanks
Matthieu
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