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From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r212453 - in head/sys: conf powerpc/aim
 powerpc/booke powerpc/include powerpc/powerpc
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On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote:

> Log:
>  Update PowerPC event timer code to use new event timers infrastructure.

What are the advantages of using the new event timers infrastructure?
Here it seems to only take longer and cost more (200 more lines of code).

Bruce