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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Xenomai configure option --enable-arm-tsc
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To: Michael Bernhard <michael.bernhard@domain.hid>
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On 10/03/2011 10:34 AM, Michael Bernhard wrote:
> On 10/03/2011 10:20 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> --enable-arm-tsc DOES NOT behave like the old option --enable-arm-arch.
>> Hence the rename.
> For me, doing the transition form Xenomai-2.5 to 2.6, it was just 
> confusing that --enable-arm-tsc has exactly the same help text as the 
> old --enable-arm-arch. It would be probably good to add an additional 
> sentence to explain why one has to select the architecture for this 
> option. Something like this:
> 
> "To enable the correct TSC user-space implementation, select for which ..."

Right. But --enable-arm-tsc does not enable the correct TSC user-space
implementation. It is an option only useful for old I-pipe patches that
did not support the "kuser" tsc implementation. So, using this option
with Xenomai 2.6.0 is probably not what you want to do.

-- 
					    Gilles.