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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	Dave Liu <r63238@freescale.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 09:27:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179530872.32247.423.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464DAD06.2060504@ru.mvista.com>

On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:41 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>     From the "PowerPC Operating Environment Architecture" that I've
> already 
> quoated t follows that POWER4-compatible decremented exception *must*
> be edge 
> triggered.
> 
> > says that an exception is generated when the MSB transitions from 0
> to
> > 1. It's not clear wether the exception sticks while that bit is 1 or
> is
> 
>     Freescale MPC 7450 manual says the same, for example. 

I find it extremely silly to implement it as edge anyway. The EE line is
level triggered, and having a mix of edge and level on the same
exception without a clean way to retrigger the DEC one other than
waiting one tick is just causing trouble.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-18 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17 17:42 [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-17 17:47 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 18:07   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-17 18:17     ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 18:26       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-17 18:31         ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-17 18:42           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-18 12:39             ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-18 13:45               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-18 14:28                 ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-18 14:48                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-18 15:37                     ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-18 16:31                     ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-18 16:50                       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-18 16:55                         ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-18 16:52                       ` Matt Sealey
2007-07-10 10:52                         ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-07-10 14:24                           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-10 23:31                             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-07-11  0:10                               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-18 20:27                       ` David Miller
2007-05-18 14:56       ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-18 15:06         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-18 15:39           ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-18 15:48             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-19  3:33             ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-20  2:43               ` Daniel Walker
2007-05-20  3:03                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-20 15:03                   ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-20 21:25                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-20 16:02                   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-20 21:26                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-17 19:27 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-17 19:43   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-17 19:50     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-17 20:00       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-17 20:53         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-18  5:04           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-18  5:39             ` Dave Liu
2007-05-18  7:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-18 13:41                 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-18 13:48                   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-18 23:27                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-05-18 23:49                     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-19  0:13                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 15:56                     ` Milton Miller
2007-05-19  3:34                   ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-24 18:25 ` [PATCH 2.6.21-rt7] PowerPC: fix clockevents for classic CPUs Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-24 19:10   ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-10-18 14:45 ` [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver Sergei Shtylyov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-18  3:24 Albert Cahalan
2007-05-18 14:52 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-05-19  1:45   ` Albert Cahalan
2007-05-19 12:28     ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-19 18:22       ` Albert Cahalan

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