Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > and wouldn't it be nice if we just changed it to > > #include > > and got rid of one totally unnecessary stupid arch difference? Looks fine to me. I'll do a patch for powerpc & ppc. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > The Jazz machines have to use the PIT timer for dyntick and highresolution > kernels. This may break because currently just like i386 used to do MIPS > uses two separate spinlocks in the actual PIT code and the PC speaker > code. So switch to do it

[PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Ralf Baechle
The Jazz machines have to use the PIT timer for dyntick and highresolution kernels. This may break because currently just like i386 used to do MIPS uses two separate spinlocks in the actual PIT code and the PC speaker code. So switch to do it the same that x86 currently does PIT locking.

[PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Ralf Baechle
The Jazz machines have to use the PIT timer for dyntick and highresolution kernels. This may break because currently just like i386 used to do MIPS uses two separate spinlocks in the actual PIT code and the PC speaker code. So switch to do it the same that x86 currently does PIT locking.

Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: The Jazz machines have to use the PIT timer for dyntick and highresolution kernels. This may break because currently just like i386 used to do MIPS uses two separate spinlocks in the actual PIT code and the PC speaker code. So switch to do it the

Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: and wouldn't it be nice if we just changed it to #include asm/i8253.h and got rid of one totally unnecessary stupid arch difference? Looks fine to me. I'll do a patch for powerpc ppc. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe