Re: device driver for the SGI system clock, mmtimer

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-09-16 at 17:09, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I think Christoph already looked at that.  And HPET doesn't provide mmap 
> functionality, does it?  I.e. allow a userspace program to dereference the 
> counter register directly?

It can do but that assumes nothing else is mapped into the same page
that would be harmful or reveal information that should not be revealed
etc..

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