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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 16:48:33 +0200
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On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:28 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> >> I guess the real question is, how high resolution does a high resolution
> >> timer need to be,
> > 
> >    In the order of microseconds.
> 
> I think both the MPC52xx GPT0-7 and the SLT0-1 fulfil this fairly
> easily.

There is some basic work for MPC5200 available:

http://www.pengutronix.de/oselas/bsp/phytec/index_en.html#phyCORE-MPC5200B-tiny

	tglx