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From: Dan Malek <dmalek@jlc.net>
To: "Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr." <ggs@shiresoft.com>
Cc: Cort Dougan <cort@persephone.cs.nmt.edu>,
	Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: PReP RTC vs Decrementer accuracy...
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:53:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36700A9F.C1C99794@jlc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 366F62CC.1C4B225E@shiresoft.com


Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr. wrote:

> Umm, but why are you keeping track of time with the decrementer?

Because that is the way it was done when I first looked at the kernel
a long time ago :-).


> .....use the timebase to keep track of time and the decrementer
> to deliver periodic interrupts?

Excellent idea.  I have started to implement this on an MPC8xx board,
so I will let everyone know the results pretty quickly.

It appears the TB is part of every PPC core.  If anyone knows different
please let me know.

    -- Dan



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  reply	other threads:[~1998-12-10 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-12-07 12:31 USB, PCI and registers Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1998-12-07 21:02 ` PReP RTC vs Decrementer accuracy Troy Benjegerdes
1998-12-08  5:00   ` Cort Dougan
1998-12-08 20:32     ` Dan Malek
1998-12-08 23:52       ` Cort Dougan
1998-12-09  7:30         ` Troy Benjegerdes
1998-12-09  8:25           ` Cort Dougan
1998-12-09 23:52             ` Corey Minyard
1998-12-10  4:20               ` Corey Minyard
1998-12-10  5:48                 ` Cort Dougan
1998-12-10 10:58                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1998-12-10 16:00                   ` Corey Minyard
1998-12-09 20:37         ` Dan Malek
1998-12-10  5:57           ` Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr.
1998-12-10 17:53             ` Dan Malek [this message]
1998-12-10 19:26               ` Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr.
1998-12-11  5:53                 ` Dan Malek
1998-12-13 17:05               ` Gabriel Paubert
1998-12-14  6:45                 ` Dan Malek
1998-12-15 20:12                 ` Dan Malek

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