svn commit: r225892 - head/sys/mips/mips

[Jayachandran C.]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Reverting it unfortunately doesn't help; it messes up the event timer stuff.

I would like to understand this, reverting r216862 would take out the
critical_enter() and cpu_idleclock() which would keep the timer
interrupts coming is as usual, this should not affect the event timer.

> I'd like to see a more permanent solution. What I suggest we do moving
> forward is:
>
> * create a function pointer setup, like what i386 does
> * override it per-platform and per-chipset, once we know what the
> correct behaviour should be.
>
> Are you able to figure out how to achieve correct timer/interrupt/wait
> handling on XLR?

I'm not aware of any platforms which provide an equivalent of 'sti',
so going for an implementation per platform may not help.

JC.