time runs too slow on maple

Olaf Hering olh at suse.de
Tue Jan 10 18:17:02 EST 2006


 On Tue, Jan 10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> We don't know if the problem has anything to do with the SMP tbsync. You
> are certainly welcome to improve that code, but the root of the problem
> is probably that the timebase calibration that we obtain from Open
> Firmware is not precise. Either that, or the clock is indeed not very
> stable (that would be bad). The first one could be worked around by
> doing some proper calibration and updating PIBS I suppose.

It has firmware 1.06. Does it really work on your board? Just wondering
if only my board goes slower.

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