From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: "Rune Torgersen" <runet@innovsys.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: clock skew on B/W G3
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 22:48:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17218.31264.61421.415716@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DCEAAC0833DD314AB0B58112AD99B93B859476@ismail.innsys.innovsys.com>
Rune Torgersen writes:
> CONFIG_HZ is not broken, but the whole clock configuration is.
> (I poseded something about it for 8260 earlier this summer)
>
> Basic problem is that CLOCK_TICK_RATE which is used for setting up the
> variables used for advancing the clock, is hardcoded to a value that
> only makes sence for an i386. (it is default set at 1193180Hz which
> happens to be the timer clock for timer1 on an i386 machine)
I do not believe CLOCK_TICK_RATE affects timekeeping at all on ppc or
ppc64 machines, but I could be wrong. Can you show us where and how
CLOCK_TICK_RATE affects things?
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-03 14:18 clock skew on B/W G3 Rune Torgersen
2005-10-04 6:14 ` Marc
2005-10-04 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-04 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-05 6:34 ` Marc
2005-10-04 12:48 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
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2005-10-04 19:22 Rune Torgersen
2005-10-04 15:15 Rune Torgersen
2005-10-04 19:14 ` George Anzinger
2005-10-01 12:29 marvin24
2005-10-02 16:46 ` Marc
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