On 2013-02-06 13:18, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> On 02/06/2013 11:20 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Hi Gilles,
>>
>> I just realized that there is now a 8253 clocksource in core-3.4+. How
>> does this work together with Xenomai's TSC emulation via the 8254 in the
>> x86 hal_32? Xenomai reprograms the PIT in rthal_setup_8254_tsc - is this
>> harmless?
>>
>> I came across this while trying to get rid of Xenomai's "depends on
>> !INPUT_PCSPKR" to avoid that circular Kbuild dependency.
> 
> 
> This emulation replaces Xenomai's TSC emulation when the kernel boots on
> a cpu without a TSC: the detection is made at run-time instead of
> compilation time using self-modifying code (this in order to be able to
> build Debian kernels which boots with any configuration).

Hmm, that's for the kernel. But what prevents rthal_setup_8254_tsc from
being executed in addition? I'm currently a bit lost in the #ifdefs.

> There is no
> reason to keep the compilation-time dependency on !INPUT_PCSPKR with
> I-pipe core, as now the pc speaker is disabled at run-time too.
> Unfortunately, I could not find how to arrange the Kconfig either.

As this is only about practically unsupported combinations of Xenomai
(2.6.x) and I-pipe (for kernel 2.6.x) on x86, we could move from a
configure-time to a build-time detection (#ifdef CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR ->
BUILD_BUG()).

Jan

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