Bogomips and loops_per_jiffy

[Allen Curtis]

I thought that this discussion was regarding BogoMips. If so, then you do
not need the RTC, use the 1 second timer. If your concern is returning and
maintaining TOD, then that is RTC.

Right?

> >
> > > I'm afraid that this is a symptom of lost timekeeping
> > > after reading the RTC and that you simply cure the symptom.
> >
> > My platform uses an 8260 processor, and AFAIK there is no RTC.
> The function
> > __USE_RTC() returns 0.
>
> OOPs, sorry for the confusion, by RTC I meant the chip with a battery
> which keeps time across reboots and that we read to initially set the
> system time.
>


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