Re: Patch - sharing RTC timer between kernel and user space

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 04:44:53 EST

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Hi!

> it would be really nice to include this patch to allow using of
> RTC timer inside the kernel space. We can use the RTC timer as timing
> source for ALSA sequencer.

I wonder... how does alsa work on sparc/alpha/.... then? Not everyone
has RTC, right? Why don't you use regular kernel timers, instead?
Pavel

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