[U-Boot] [PATCH-ARM] CONFIG_SYS_HZ fix for ARM902T S3C24X0 Boards

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Sep 8 00:18:16 CEST 2009


Dear "kevin.morfitt at fearnside-systems.co.uk",

In message <4AA583AC.3050401 at fearnside-systems.co.uk> you wrote:
> 
> > In message <4AA284B9.8030009 at fearnside-systems.co.uk> you wrote:
> >> This sets CONFIG_SYS_HZ to 1000 for all boards that use the s3c2400 and
> >> s3c2410 cpu's which fixes various problems such as the timeouts in tftp being
> >> too short.
> > 
> > I still wonder if this is really an issue. Some s3c2400 based boards
> > have been in production use for several years, with volumes of many
> > thousands of devices per year. Yet no TFTP timeout issues have been
> > reported ever.
...
> I think there were no problems because CONFIG_SYS_HZ was set to values that
> worked for each of the s3c24x0 boards. I only submitted the patch because my

I'm confused - above you write "various problems such as the timeouts
in tftp being too short", now you write: "there were no problems".

Which one is correct?

> I'm happy to withdraw the patch if it's OK to set CONFIG_SYS_HZ to a different
> value than 1000?

CONFIG_SYS_HZ is a constant with the value 1000. Board that use
different values shall be fixed.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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