[U-Boot] [RFC][Timer API] Revised Specification - Implementation details

[Reinhard Meyer]

Dear ALL,

it still escapes me why everyone tries to make things so complicated INSIDE the loop.

Why not just define an API like this:

u32 timeout = make_timeout(5); /* minimum 5 millisecond timeout */
u32 start = get_timer();

while ((get_timer() - start) < timeout)
    ...


make_timeout() can be arch/soc/platform specific and take into account to return at least
such a value that the timeout is never cut short. (In case of a 10 ms NIOS timer,
make_timeout(5) would have to return the value 20, resulting in a real timeout of at least
10 ms but upto 20 ms )

If anyone sees the need, make_timeout (or what ever it might be called) could have
a second parameter, indicating whether round up or round down is desired.

...

I also agree to remove the parameter of get_timer(), but we should also get rid of
CONFIG_SYS_HZ.

Reinhard