[U-Boot-Users] Porting u-boot to custom MPC852T board.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Nov 15 23:19:47 CET 2003


Dear David,

in message <OFE82767F6.659BC515-ON85256DDF.00763E07 at nanometrics.ca> you wrote:
> 
> Anyways, I noticed that measure_gclk is using timer 2 for frequency
> measurement.  Appendix H in the Motorola MPC866 manual says timer 1 and 2
> are removed from the MPC852T.  Although it still works on my board, it may
> not work over the temperature.  I'm considering adding an if def block to
> use timer 3 instead.  Would you care to consider this patch?

Instead of #ifdef'ing this we could switch to any other  timer  which
is  available  on all processors. When I implemented the code I never
expected to see a MPC8xx without timer 2 ;-)

> I am considering submitting a patch for our custom board.  This may be a
> good time for me to get accustomed to the generally accepted rules.

Sure - please see the "Submitting Patches" section in the README.

Best regards,
Viele Grüße,

Wolfgang Denk

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