Re: 2.6.19 timer API changes

[Daniel Laird <danieljlaird@hotmail.com>]

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:29:25 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
>> > How about this?  You should still fix pnx8550_hpt_read() anyway, but I
>> > suppose gettimeofday() on PNX8550 was broken long time.
>> 
>>     And nobody noticed. :-)
> 
> I changed my mind a bit.  The pre-clocksource gettimeofday() might
> work well on PNX8550.  There was timerlo variable which hold COUNT
> value on last timer interrupt and fixed_gettimeoffset() subtracted
> timerlo from COUNT value at the time.
> 
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:29:25 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov
> <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:
> 
>> > +static cycle_t pnx8550_hpt_read(void)
>> > +{
>> > +	/* FIXME: we should use timer2 or timer3 as freerun counter */
>> > +	return read_c0_count();
>>  > +}
>> 
>>     I'd suggest read_c0_count2() here, possibly adding an interrupt
>> handler for it since it will interrupt upon hitting compare2
>> reg. value (but we could probably just mask the IRQ off), and
>> enabling the timer 2, of course (the current code disables it)...
> 
> It would be right direction.  And we should set set count2 frequency
> to mips_hpt_frequency.  But I cannot test it by myself so I'd like to
> leave it for others.  Good exercise ;)
> 
> ---
> Atsushi Nemoto
> 
> 
> 
It seems likely that this did work in previous releases, however it will
obviously need to work on this release and so once I have solved the startup
issues by using your second proposed patch I will do some testing to see if
I can get this to work (if it is indeed broken)
Cheers
Dan
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