[U-Boot-Users] DaVinci DM644x timer problem (divided by 16)

[Pieter Voorthuijsen]

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...

Best regards,
Pieter


Pieter Voorthuijsen
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