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Add support for other clock sources in timer driver
Currently, we are using only apb_clock in General-purpose timers implementation. The https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-hal/pull/77 added other options for the clock source.
After discussion with @bjoernQ it seems it's not that straightforward.
In ESP-IDF the user can set the clock source but also manually choose the divider etc - it's a much lower level API.
Do we want to have an additional low-level constructor that takes the clock source and divider? Then the user will want to use ticks for e.g start function - probably going to be a lot of effort.
Also would be a general design decision since if we offer a low-level version here why don't we have it everywhere?
For now, let's turn this issue into a discussion of how we want to deal with this in the future. What is your opinion @bjoernQ, @jessebraham, @MabezDev?
ABP has served us well and I'm not aware of any current issues with TIMG being driven from it, therefore I'm going to close this for now.
