diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/i8253.c b/arch/mips/kernel/i8253.c
index 2392a7a2..391221b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/i8253.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/i8253.c
@@ -125,87 +125,11 @@
 	setup_irq(0, &irq0);
 }
 
-/*
- * Since the PIT overflows every tick, its not very useful
- * to just read by itself. So use jiffies to emulate a free
- * running counter:
- */
-static cycle_t pit_read(struct clocksource *cs)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-	int count;
-	u32 jifs;
-	static int old_count;
-	static u32 old_jifs;
-
-	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&i8253_lock, flags);
-	/*
-	 * Although our caller may have the read side of xtime_lock,
-	 * this is now a seqlock, and we are cheating in this routine
-	 * by having side effects on state that we cannot undo if
-	 * there is a collision on the seqlock and our caller has to
-	 * retry.  (Namely, old_jifs and old_count.)  So we must treat
-	 * jiffies as volatile despite the lock.  We read jiffies
-	 * before latching the timer count to guarantee that although
-	 * the jiffies value might be older than the count (that is,
-	 * the counter may underflow between the last point where
-	 * jiffies was incremented and the point where we latch the
-	 * count), it cannot be newer.
-	 */
-	jifs = jiffies;
-	outb_p(0x00, PIT_MODE);	/* latch the count ASAP */
-	count = inb_p(PIT_CH0);	/* read the latched count */
-	count |= inb_p(PIT_CH0) << 8;
-
-	/* VIA686a test code... reset the latch if count > max + 1 */
-	if (count > LATCH) {
-		outb_p(0x34, PIT_MODE);
-		outb_p(LATCH & 0xff, PIT_CH0);
-		outb(LATCH >> 8, PIT_CH0);
-		count = LATCH - 1;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * It's possible for count to appear to go the wrong way for a
-	 * couple of reasons:
-	 *
-	 *  1. The timer counter underflows, but we haven't handled the
-	 *     resulting interrupt and incremented jiffies yet.
-	 *  2. Hardware problem with the timer, not giving us continuous time,
-	 *     the counter does small "jumps" upwards on some Pentium systems,
-	 *     (see c't 95/10 page 335 for Neptun bug.)
-	 *
-	 * Previous attempts to handle these cases intelligently were
-	 * buggy, so we just do the simple thing now.
-	 */
-	if (count > old_count && jifs == old_jifs) {
-		count = old_count;
-	}
-	old_count = count;
-	old_jifs = jifs;
-
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8253_lock, flags);
-
-	count = (LATCH - 1) - count;
-
-	return (cycle_t)(jifs * LATCH) + count;
-}
-
-static struct clocksource clocksource_pit = {
-	.name	= "pit",
-	.rating = 110,
-	.read	= pit_read,
-	.mask	= CLOCKSOURCE_MASK(32),
-	.mult	= 0,
-	.shift	= 20,
-};
-
 static int __init init_pit_clocksource(void)
 {
 	if (num_possible_cpus() > 1) /* PIT does not scale! */
 		return 0;
 
-	clocksource_pit.mult = clocksource_hz2mult(CLOCK_TICK_RATE, 20);
-	return clocksource_register(&clocksource_pit);
+	return clocksource_i8253_init();
 }
 arch_initcall(init_pit_clocksource);