From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <36700A9F.C1C99794@jlc.net> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:53:36 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Guy G. Sotomayor, Jr." CC: Cort Dougan , Troy Benjegerdes , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: PReP RTC vs Decrementer accuracy... References: <366EDF74.6EE17E0D@jlc.net> <366F62CC.1C4B225E@shiresoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]