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On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 22:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 
> You don't have any way to freeze the timebase ? (No GPIO controlling
> TBEN ?) It's pretty nasty to rely on software sync,

I will investigate this option and follow up with a patch,
assuming that there is a HW solution for your suggestion.

> especially if it's supposed to be an example design ...

Who said that? ;-)

jdl