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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:30:43 -0500
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:30:57 +0400
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> >>>>on 40x to match the behavior 44x currently has.
> 
> >>>    Why bother doing this?! This will only warrant you imprecise decrementer 
> >>>interrupts while it should be interrupting at the precise period currently (if 
> >>>you load PIT once)...
> 
> >>    I.e. the error will only accumulate. NAK.
> 
> > What error exactly?  I'm not following you there.  If there really is
> 
>    I was assuming that the decrementer is in auto-reload mode.  Brain fade. :-<

Heh, ok.  Glad I wasn't completely lost there :).

josh