* Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> [130121 13:07]: > > As for Samsung and the rest I can't comment. The original reason OMAP > used this though was because the 32768Hz counter can't produce 100Hz > without a .1% error - too much error under pre-clocksource > implementations for timekeeping. Whether that's changed with the > clocksource/clockevent support needs to be checked.
Yes that's why HZ was originally set to 128. That value (or some multiple) still makes sense when the 32 KiHZ clock source is being used. Of course we should rely on the local timer when running for the SoCs that have them. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
