Re: status of the Altix mmtimer driver

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 23 May 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

Cc: + Mike

> Hi folks,
> 
> what's the status of the SGI support for the IA64 SN2-specific
> altic mmtimer (drivers/char/mmtimer.c)?  It's the only driver that
> register a k_lock outside the core kernel, so if we could get rid of
> it because the remaining IA64 user are all on somewhat old distros
> anyway it would make our life a whole lot easier.
>