[Skiboot] [PATCH 3/3] slw/timer: SBE based timer support

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Sep 11 17:22:42 AEST 2015


Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> Recent HostBoot & SBE firmware provide a HW timer facility that can
> be used to implement OPAL timers and thus limit the reliance on the
> Linux heartbeat.
>
> This implements support for it. The side effect is that i2c from Centaurs
> is now usable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>

Thanks, merged as of 9af5751 - and as mentioned on IRC, you should start
running 'make check' :)



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