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Re: [RFT] Rewrite timer on arm efi and remove leftover in startup code


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [RFT] Rewrite timer on arm efi and remove leftover in startup code
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:31:57 +0200
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On 07.10.2013 13:30, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:46:53AM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' 
> Serbinenko wrote:
>> Current timer code for ARM EFI is horror. Can anyone test this?
> 
> I can verify that this works on my Versatile Express TC2 platform,
> with no noticeable performance degradation (and it does increment).
> 
> However, could this be moved to kern/efi/init.c?
> I will need the same function for the 64-bit ARM port (which I
> intend to post a first version of later this week).
Moving it to kern/efi/init.c would be counterproductive as only arm uses
it. On the other hand it's fine to include 32-bit ARM files in 64-bit
port. We do the same between x86_64-efi and i386-efi.
E.g.
  x86_64_efi = kern/i386/efi/init.c;

> 
> Hmm - trunk does not however seem to be able to successfully boot a
> Linux kernel on ARM/UEFI currently. I will look into that.
> 
> /
>     Leif
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