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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] some results on my laptop
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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?
>

There should not be any direct usage, at least into the generic code, since it is 
aimed at running over the event-driven simulator too. Actually, the same goes for 
the x86-specific code, since we do support using the 8254 as an alternative to the 
TSC.

> Jan
> 


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Philippe.