System Clock runaway on Xilinx platform

Stephen Neuendorffer stephen.neuendorffer at xilinx.com
Thu Feb 7 11:10:18 EST 2008


The processor is an integer factor faster than the bus, unless you're
doing something really unusual.  Are you sure that's not 300 and 150?

175/150 = 1.16, which might be the difference you're seeing?

Steve

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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the help so far!
> I'm now running linux 2.6.21 on my custom virtex 4 board modeled after
the
> ml410.  The cpu clock is 300MHz and the PLB bus is 175MHz.
> 
> My question is which clock is the linux system clock that keeps track
of the
> date derived from?  I set my date with rdate -s time.mit.edu at boot
and
> then compare with the date command and rdate -p time.mit.edu and they
are
> off by 20 or so seconds even just after a few minutes, this trend
continues
> and it will be off by a day after a few hours.  I think I just don't
have
> something defined correctly but I can't figure out which.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kevin
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