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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Realtime gettimeofday()
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Why? It delivers us the core mechanism we need for the rest as well -
> and it does not require fancy I-pipe hooks.

Because relying on the vdso/vsyscall only works on x86. Whereas
implementing clock slew down/acceleration at nucleus level and simply
sharing data between kernel and user through the the global sem heap,
works for all architectures.

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                                          Gilles