[U-Boot] [PATCH] [Timer]Remove calls to [get, reset]_timer outside arch/

Graeme Russ graeme.russ at gmail.com
Wed May 25 14:17:56 CEST 2011


On 24/05/11 20:54, Graeme Russ wrote:
> There is no need to use set_timer() and reset_timer() and there are build
> breakages occuring because of them (specifically cfi_flash). Remove any
> usage outside arch/ to fix build breakages and to prepare for complete
> removal
> 
> The Nios2 timer implentation updates every 10ms (increases in 10ms steps)
> and required a reset_timer() call before timing operations. For Nios2, call
> reset_timer() when get_timer() is called with a parameter value of 0

That's not going to work either - start = get_timer(0) will reset the timer
and set start to zero so get_timer(start) will continually reset the timer
and return zero :(

Stay tuned for v3 :)

Regards,

Graeme



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