From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [63.81.120.158]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FAADDE19 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:41:42 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Implement generic time of day clocksource for powerpc machines. From: Daniel Walker To: David Gibson In-Reply-To: <20070920032935.GC18991@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070919064947.4B5A1399910@thor> <1190216594.11899.3.camel@imap.mvista.com> <18161.50240.599267.768383@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1190252151.11899.66.camel@imap.mvista.com> <18161.53509.342082.588911@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1190253281.11899.74.camel@imap.mvista.com> <20070920032935.GC18991@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:38:32 -0700 Message-Id: <1190259512.11899.75.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Thomas Gleixner , Paul Mackerras , Realtime Kernel , johnstul@us.ibm.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:29 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > Maybe say "It a constant" up front .. The value that is output from the > > clocksource read is converted to nanoseconds .. This clocksource is only > > designed to work with the timebase, so it doesn't make sense to output > > an rtc value. > > I believe "rtc" in a 601 context means something different to "rtc" in > a general context... What's a 601 context? Daniel