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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Subject: Re: Status of -rt for linux-2.6.20/arch/powerpc
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:37:37 +0100
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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Wolfgang,
> 
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 13:39 +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> As I see it, 2.6.20-rt3 has the same issues (have now attached the 
>> missing make output). I fixed them manually and are now able to boot and 
>> run the 2.6.20-rt5 on my Icecube board. Nevertheless, cyclictest returns 
>> high values of around 8000-10000 (8-10ms). The fact that the unknown 
>> field 'is_continuous' in arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c is still present 
>> gives me the impression, that the code in there is not up-to-date. See 
>> you next week on the Embedded World.
> 
> Yup, I did not come around to do the fixups. Is top on my todo list
> though.

Apart from that, I also realized that it's not possible to enable 
HIGH_RES_TIMERS, because GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS is not selected or 
available for PowerPC.

Wolfgang.