Re: System Clock runaway on Xilinx platform

[Kevin Holland <khollan@daktronics.com>]

I load with the zImage.elf, so my xparameters are set like this:

#define XPAR_CPU_PPC405_CORE_CLOCK_FREQ_HZ 300000000
#define XPAR_CORE_CLOCK_FREQ_HZ XPAR_CPU_PPC405_CORE_CLOCK_FREQ_HZ

I took readings every 5 min over a 15 min period and it seems to be
increasing by approximately 50 sec every 5 mins.

Thanks

Kevin

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 13:29 -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> On 2/6/08, khollan <khollan@daktronics.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for the help so far!
> > I'm now running linux 2.6.21 on my custom virtex 4 board modeled after the
> > ml410.  The cpu clock is 300MHz and the PLB bus is 175MHz.
> >
> > My question is which clock is the linux system clock that keeps track of the
> > date derived from?  I set my date with rdate -s time.mit.edu at boot and
> > then compare with the date command and rdate -p time.mit.edu and they are
> > off by 20 or so seconds even just after a few minutes, this trend continues
> > and it will be off by a day after a few hours.  I think I just don't have
> > something defined correctly but I can't figure out which.
> 
> The clock is maintained off of the PowerPC time base register (TBL,
> TBU).  On Virtex ppc platforms, the time base frequency is supposed to
> be the same as the CPU clock.  Can you figure out *exactly* how
> quickly the clock is drifting?
> 
> How are you booting your Virtex platform?  u-boot or a zImage.elf?  If
> it's a zImage, the CPU clock frequency is set in
> arch/ppc/boot/simple/embed_config.c (search for CONFIG_XILINX and look
> for the line that sets bd->bi_intfreq).  Make XPAR_CORE_CLOCK_FREQ_HZ
> in xparameters matches you CPU clock speed.
> 
> Side note: you may notice that bd->bi_tbfreq is also used but not set;
> that's because bd->bi_intfreq and bd->tbfreq point to the same memory
> location.  (It's kind of messed up that way, don't worry too much
> about it)
> 
> If you're using u-boot, then u-boot will set the cpu frequency in the
> board info structure.
> 
> Cheers,
> g.
>