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From: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:24:38 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] DaVinci DM644x timer problem (divided by 16)
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Pieter Voorthuijsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some months ago, a patch was submitted ([ARM] fix timer overflow in
> DaVinci). The result was that in /cpu/arm926ejs/davinci/timer.c
> read_timer was divided by 16. 
> 
> http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=ea686f52e4
> 5b3df2938866d3f5a98bb2556dfe2b
> 
> Right now, when I have my bootdelay variable (on a DVEVM) set to 2, and
> countdown takes 32 seconds... Also iprobe got very very  very slow.
> Maybe more items are affected by this timer division.
> 
> Is anybody else seeing this? Clearly when the timer is used by several
> blocks, it cannot be easily divided by 16. I think we need something
> else to work with the wrap around of the timer...

Thanks for the report!

Any idea what might be better?

Thanks

Dirk