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    ipipe: add out-of-band tick device · 216ce73c
    Philippe Gerum authored
    The out-of-band tick device manages the timer hardware by interposing
    on selected clockevent handlers transparently, so that a client domain
    (e.g. a co-kernel) eventually controls such hardware for scheduling
    the high-precision timer events it needs to. Those events are
    delivered to out-of-hand activities running on the head stage,
    unimpeded by (only virtually) interrupt-free sections of the regular
    kernel code.
    
    This commit introduces the generic API for controlling the out-of-band
    tick device from a co-kernel. It also provides for the internal API
    clock event chip drivers should use for enabling high-precision
    timing for their hardware.
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