hpet misc device usage

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 00:24:44 EDT 2013


On 3/17/13, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anybody knows about a user space utility or tool which uses the
> hpet misc device (/dev/hpet)?
>
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/char/hpet.c

I vaguely recall that Qemu uses hpet for internal timing. Maybe you
can check the qemu source code for clarification.

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