POSIX High Resolution Timers in LinuxPPC 2.4

[David Jander]

Hi Tim,

On Friday 16 December 2005 23:34, Martin, Tim wrote:
> Could someone give me a brief history lesson on POSIX high resolution
> timers (e.g. timer_create() function) implemented in the Linux kernel on
> the PowerPC 405 architecture?  Specifically:
>
> Confirm they are in the mainline 2.6 kernel now (e.g. kernel.org)?
>
> Were they ever a part of the "mainline" 2.4 linuxppc kernel (e.g
> ppc.bkbits.net)?
>
> If no, were they ever available as a patch? The stuff at
> sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers stops at 2.4.20 and looks like it
> was only ever working for i386, not ppc.

I asked a related question a while back, and got no answer (yet).
I did find this though, which you might have overlooked:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/high-res-timers/ppc-hrt-2.6.10.patch?download

I am equally puzzled about whether this has made it into mainstream, is about 
to, or never will. I don't even know if it actually works.

Greetings,

-- 
David Jander
Protonic Holland.