Always-on local APIC timer (ARAT) has been introduced to Medfield, along
with the platform APB timers we have more timer configuration options
between Moorestown and Medfield.
This patch adds run-time detection of avaiable timer features so that
we can treat Medfield as a variant of Moorestown and set up the optimal
timer options for each platform. i.e.
Medfield: per cpu always-on local APIC timer
Moorestown: per cpu APB timer
Manual override is possible via cmdline option x86_mrst_timer.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
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Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Moorestown platform does not have PIT or HPET platform timers. Instead it
has a bank of eight APB timers. The number of available timers to the os
is exposed via SFI mtmr tables. All APB timer interrupts are routed via
ioapic rtes and delivered as MSI.
Currently, we use timer 0 and 1 for per cpu clockevent devices, timer 2
for clocksource.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Jacob Pan