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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:58:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF15F55.AABB383C@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011113144240.B669@linux-m68k.org

Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> Btw the interrupt need not to be hardware, for the Q40 I test
> a rtc register once per jiffie and generate a "soft interrupt".
> It could be done generic at least for m68k.
> 

I have written an experiemntal ptimer driver to do just this and potential
more.  Such a device is useful for real-time programming (e.g., when you try
to implement a periodic user task).

See http://linux.junsun.net/realtime-linux/preemption-test

The driver is architecture independent (i.e., linux-common code)

Due to the different programming needs behind periodic timers (or user-level
timer) and RTC operations, my vote for future work is to leave them as two
separate drivers.  To me, RTC is really just to read/write RTC clock.

Jun

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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>,
	Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:58:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF15F55.AABB383C@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011113144240.B669@linux-m68k.org


Richard Zidlicky wrote:

> Btw the interrupt need not to be hardware, for the Q40 I test
> a rtc register once per jiffie and generate a "soft interrupt".
> It could be done generic at least for m68k.
>

I have written an experiemntal ptimer driver to do just this and potential
more.  Such a device is useful for real-time programming (e.g., when you try
to implement a periodic user task).

See http://linux.junsun.net/realtime-linux/preemption-test

The driver is architecture independent (i.e., linux-common code)

Due to the different programming needs behind periodic timers (or user-level
timer) and RTC operations, my vote for future work is to leave them as two
separate drivers.  To me, RTC is really just to read/write RTC clock.

Jun

** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-13 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-11  7:17 [RFC] generic MIPS RTC driver Jun Sun
2001-11-11 10:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-11 10:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-12 12:59   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 12:59     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 13:11     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-12 13:11       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-12 13:29       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 13:29         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 16:14         ` Pete Popov
2001-11-12 16:14           ` Pete Popov
2001-11-12 18:26           ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:26             ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:56             ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:56               ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 21:51               ` Tom Rini
2001-11-12 21:51                 ` Tom Rini
2001-11-12 18:24         ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:24           ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 19:04           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 19:04             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 19:21             ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 19:21               ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:19       ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:19         ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 18:55         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 18:55           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-12 19:13           ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 19:13             ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12 20:02         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-12 20:02           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-12 20:54           ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-12 20:54             ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13  1:31             ` Tom Rini
2001-11-13  1:31               ` Tom Rini
2001-11-13  6:20               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-13  6:20                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-13 14:44                 ` Tom Rini
2001-11-13 14:44                   ` Tom Rini
2001-11-13 14:47                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-13 14:47                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-11-13 15:30                   ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13 15:30                     ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13 15:30                     ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13 13:42             ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-13 13:42               ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-13 15:32               ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-13 15:32                 ` Roman Zippel
2001-11-14  9:46                 ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-14  9:46                   ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-13 17:58               ` Jun Sun [this message]
2001-11-13 17:58                 ` Jun Sun
2001-11-14 10:08                 ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-14 10:08                   ` Richard Zidlicky
2001-11-15 17:41                   ` Jun Sun
2001-11-15 17:41                     ` Jun Sun
2001-11-12  1:45 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-11-12 19:26   ` Jun Sun

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