clock skew on B/W G3
Paul Mackerras
paulus at samba.org
Tue Oct 4 22:48:32 EST 2005
Rune Torgersen writes:
> CONFIG_HZ is not broken, but the whole clock configuration is.
> (I poseded something about it for 8260 earlier this summer)
>
> Basic problem is that CLOCK_TICK_RATE which is used for setting up the
> variables used for advancing the clock, is hardcoded to a value that
> only makes sence for an i386. (it is default set at 1193180Hz which
> happens to be the timer clock for timer1 on an i386 machine)
I do not believe CLOCK_TICK_RATE affects timekeeping at all on ppc or
ppc64 machines, but I could be wrong. Can you show us where and how
CLOCK_TICK_RATE affects things?
Paul.
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