[U-Boot] [RFC] Review of U-Boot timer API

[J. William Campbell <jwilliamcampbell@comcast.net>]

On 5/22/2011 5:02 PM, Graeme Russ wrote:
> Dear Reinhard,
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Reinhard Meyer
> <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>  wrote:
>> Dear J. William Campbell,
>>
>> please demonstrate for me (and others), by a practical example,
>> how _any_ arithmetic (even less with just shifts and multiplies)
>> can convert a free running 3.576 MHz (wild example) free running
>> 32 bit counter (maybe software extended to 64 bits) into a ms
>> value that will properly wrap from 2**32-1 to 0 ?
>>
>> I fail to see how that will be possible...
> These may help:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/devdev/archive/2005/12/12/502980.aspx
> http://www.hackersdelight.org/divcMore.pdf
>
> of Google 'division of unsigned integer by a constant'
>
> Basically you will be dividing by a constant value of 3576 which can be
> highly optimised
Hi All,
        Yes, you can do it this way. I prefer not to use properties of 
the constant because it doesn't allow multiple clock rates easily. The 
code I posted just a moment ago is easy to change for different rates 
because it does not rely much on the exact bit structure of 3576.
There are simple formulas for all the "magic numbers" in what I posted, 
so it is easy to change the input frequency.
Best Regards,
Bill Campbell
> Regards,
>
> Graeme
>
>