High resolution timer support in 2.6.24+ for MPC831x?
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Feb 15 07:51:35 EST 2008
Leon Woestenberg wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> although I can enable high res timers in 2.6.24, the item note says it
> does nothing if the platform does not have support for it.
>
> My platform is a MPC8313E-RDB, and I suspect no high res clock source
> implementation exists for it in 2.6.24, because
> clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME,) gives me 1/HZ.
>
> Is this correct and/or is anything in the works?
The timebase/decrementer can be used as a high clock source on virtually
all powerpc chips; I tried clock_getres(CLOCK_REALTIME) on an 8313erdb,
and I got 1 ns. Did you turn on CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS?
-Scott
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