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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <4DDCED75.8030906 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> >>> 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.
...
> > The "tick counter" is already in the higher level, i. e. implemented
> > in software, without any hardware based registers.
...

> Now every time get_timer() is called, the prescaler updates the timer from
> the current tick count - This cannot fail if interrupts are inadvertently
> disabled.

Arghh... But in this szenario, if interrupts are disabled, then the
ISR will not run, so the tick count will not be incremented BECAUSE
THE TICK COUNTER IS A VARIABLE THAT GETS INCREMENTED BY ONE EACH TIME
THE ISR RUNS.  So your prescaler will read a constant value.

Sorry for shouting, but I feel either you are not listening to me or I
cannot make myself understood to you.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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