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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed May 25 10:08:37 CEST 2011


Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <BANLkTinZ_q8_vqd9mzm7BY64Hi=zuyFZTQ at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> With the prescaler design we are discussing, as long as we have access to
> a free-running tick counter, it does not matter one iota if the interrupt
> is delayed by one tick, a hundred ticks or a thousand ticks privided it
> eventually happens within the roll-over interval of the tick counter

I don't get you.  In such a system, the interrupt would be the tick
(see the PPC implementation).  If you miss interrupts, you miss ticks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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