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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:58:21 -0500
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] [POWERPC] sysdev,qe_lib: implement FSL GTM support
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:00:42AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:44:42PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > A maximal timeout of ~65 ms is a little low...  For use as a wakeup from
> > sleep mode, I'd like to be able to request timeouts as large as the
> > hardware allows.
> 
> That is about precision. You just need to implement gtm_reset_stimer()
> is you want precision with a seconds, this will run a timer at 1 Hz.

Enh.  I'm not crazy about having to call separately named functions,
rather than have the timer code set the reference clock to the highest
precision that has the needed range.

-Scott