From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: calibrating MIPS counter frequency
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 02:02:40 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011130020240.F638@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C05646B.51BF79FB@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:25:47PM -0800
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 02:25:47PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> In the future, I think mips counter frequency really should go to mips_cpu
> structure. If we always know the counter frequency, either by board setup
> routine or runtime calibration, we can get rid of the gettimeoffset
> calibration routines.
Better stick with the calibration procedure. The crystal oscilators used
in most computer systems don't provide the high accuracy of frequency
that is required to keep the clock accurately over long time. An RTC
chip which you'd probably use as reference clock is better at that so
should be used as the ultimate reference time in the kernel.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-29 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-28 22:25 calibrating MIPS counter frequency Jun Sun
2001-11-29 15:02 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-11-29 15:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-29 15:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-29 15:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-29 15:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-11-29 18:17 ` Jun Sun
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