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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> ...
> What about other time sources on x86? Which systems already have HPET
> these days, and does this source not suffer from frequency scaling? I
> once read that HPET is quite easy to program, is this true? IOW, would
> it be worth considering to add this to the HAL?

There are actually only few registers:

http://www.intel.com/hardwaredesign/hpetspec_1.pdf

Even a replacement for the TSC is available ("Main Counter"), but I
guess that some effort will be required to replace all direct usages of
rdtsc in the current Xenomai code, right?

Jan


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