From: David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Martin, Tim" <tim.martin@viasat.com>
Subject: Re: POSIX High Resolution Timers in LinuxPPC 2.4
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:39:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512191039.58149.david.jander@protonic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <821B2170E9E7F04FA38DF7EC21DE4871022BB9A9@VCAEXCH01.hq.corp.viasat.com>
Hi Tim,
On Friday 16 December 2005 23:34, Martin, Tim wrote:
> Could someone give me a brief history lesson on POSIX high resolution
> timers (e.g. timer_create() function) implemented in the Linux kernel on
> the PowerPC 405 architecture? Specifically:
>
> Confirm they are in the mainline 2.6 kernel now (e.g. kernel.org)?
>
> Were they ever a part of the "mainline" 2.4 linuxppc kernel (e.g
> ppc.bkbits.net)?
>
> If no, were they ever available as a patch? The stuff at
> sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers stops at 2.4.20 and looks like it
> was only ever working for i386, not ppc.
I asked a related question a while back, and got no answer (yet).
I did find this though, which you might have overlooked:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/high-res-timers/ppc-hrt-2.6.10.patch?download
I am equally puzzled about whether this has made it into mainstream, is about
to, or never will. I don't even know if it actually works.
Greetings,
--
David Jander
Protonic Holland.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-19 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-16 22:34 POSIX High Resolution Timers in LinuxPPC 2.4 Martin, Tim
2005-12-19 9:39 ` David Jander [this message]
2005-12-19 15:57 ` Egan
2005-12-19 22:56 ` Geoff Levand
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