From: "Allen Curtis" <acurtis@onz.com>
To: "Gabriel Paubert" <paubert@iram.es>,
"Jean-Denis Boyer" <jdboyer@mediatrix.com>
Cc: "Troy Benjegerdes" <hozer@drgw.net>,
"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>,
"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: RE: Bogomips and loops_per_jiffy
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 07:39:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NCBBIINEHIPFGJPLBEIFMEMKDGAA.acurtis@onz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205101627540.23021-100000@gra-lx1.iram.es>
I thought that this discussion was regarding BogoMips. If so, then you do
not need the RTC, use the 1 second timer. If your concern is returning and
maintaining TOD, then that is RTC.
Right?
> >
> > > I'm afraid that this is a symptom of lost timekeeping
> > > after reading the RTC and that you simply cure the symptom.
> >
> > My platform uses an 8260 processor, and AFAIK there is no RTC.
> The function
> > __USE_RTC() returns 0.
>
> OOPs, sorry for the confusion, by RTC I meant the chip with a battery
> which keeps time across reboots and that we read to initially set the
> system time.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-10 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-10 14:10 Bogomips and loops_per_jiffy Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-10 14:23 ` Allen Curtis
2002-05-10 15:06 ` Jerry Van Baren
2002-05-10 14:27 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-10 14:29 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-10 14:39 ` Allen Curtis [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-10 14:54 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-10 20:15 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-10 21:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-05-11 2:08 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-10 14:46 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-10 14:15 Petersen, David (MED, GEMS-IT)
2002-05-08 18:30 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-08 16:53 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-08 17:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-05-08 22:13 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-09 15:08 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-05-09 16:16 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-05-08 18:06 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-05-06 21:17 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-05-08 0:48 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2002-04-22 15:57 Jean-Denis Boyer
2002-04-19 11:57 Jim Thompson
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