Bogomips and loops_per_jiffy

[Jerry Van Baren]

The 8260's 1 second timer is only useful if your hardware clocks the "RTC"
clock input at the proper rate.  A lot of embedded boards don't bother
because the usefulness of having another crystal on the board just to clock
a counter is very tenuous.

gvb


At 07:23 AM 5/10/2002 -0700, Allen Curtis wrote:

>FYI: There is a 1 second timer in the 8260 that could be used. (Assuming
>that I understand what you are referring to) I am not sure why m8260_setup.c
>just sets/returns a global variable but there is/was a note there mentioning
>the 1 second timer. This is what we are using. It is actually started in our
>BIOS but could be done just as easily in the setup routine.
>
> > My platform uses an 8260 processor, and AFAIK there is no RTC.
> > The function
>
>


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