Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Don't call __ipipe_mach_set_dec in rthal_timer_release directly

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Sebastian Smolorz wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>You can avoid this problem by adding LATCH or
>>__ipipe_mach_ticks_per_jiffy to the current value of the match register
>>in the timer interrupt, as it is done for the SA and PXA architectures.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, this solution is not applicable. The timers of PXA and SA are 
> counting up whereas the S3C24xx timers are counting down to zero. There is no 
> match register for the next interrupt. In contrast, the timer must be 
> programmed with the new dec value directly, thus stopping it for the time of 
> re-programming.

Right, you are in the same case as the integrator platform.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix