Override timer interrupt
Mark A. Greer
mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Oct 13 07:55:45 EST 2007
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:39:53PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:
> > From: Mark A. Greer
> > > Is there an easy way to use something other than the decrementer for
> the
> > > timer interrupt?
>
> > Check out the clocksource stuff. It let's you set up numerous clock
> > sources and set the rating of each one. You can start looking in
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c for example code.
>
> Thanks I will.
> Currently our board port lives in /arch/ppc (2.6.18) but I will take a
> look in powerpc.
Okay. Just an FYI, arch/ppc will evaporate next summer.
Mark
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