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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:10:19 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B3617B.10509@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B35C07.4090806@ru.mvista.com>

I wrote:

>>Allow generic_calibrate_decr to work for 40x platforms.  Given that the hardware
>>behavior is identical, this also changes the set_dec function to reload the PIT

    It's not actually identical. When you're writing to the PIT reg on 40x, 
you're alos writing to the hidden PIT auto-reload reg. which is not the case 
for 440 that is true Book E.

>>on 40x to match the behavior 44x currently has.

>     Why bother doing this?! This will only warrant you imprecise decrementer 
> interrupts while it should be interrupting at the precise period currently (if 
> you load PIT once)...

    I.e. the error will only accumulate. NAK.

WBR, Sergei

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-03 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-03 16:09 [patch 00/10] 4xx patch series for 2.6.24 Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 01/10] Rename 4xx paths to 40x Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 02/10] 4xx Kconfig cleanup Josh Boyer
2007-08-04  7:45   ` David Gibson
2007-08-06 12:31     ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-07  3:06       ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 03/10] Rename 44x bootwrapper Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:36   ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 04/10] 4xx bootwrapper reworks Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:38   ` David Gibson
2007-08-06 12:36     ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-07  3:05       ` David Gibson
2007-08-07 13:10         ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-08  1:19           ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 05/10] 40x MMU Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:34   ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 16:47   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-03 17:10     ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]
2007-08-03 17:25       ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 17:30         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-03 17:30           ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 17:35             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-04  2:28       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-05 14:12         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-03 17:15     ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 17:25       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-04  2:28     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-05 14:19       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 07/10] Fix 40x build Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:39   ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 08/10] Bamboo DTS Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:53   ` David Gibson
2007-08-06 18:01     ` Jon Loeliger
2007-08-06 18:05       ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-07 13:11     ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 09/10] Bamboo board support Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  4:55   ` David Gibson
2007-08-03 16:09 ` [patch 10/10] Bamboo zImage wrapper Josh Boyer
2007-08-06  5:00   ` David Gibson
2007-08-06 12:39     ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-07  3:04       ` David Gibson
2007-08-07  3:04   ` David Gibson

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