Re: [U-Boot] RFC: get_ticks() + get_tbclk()

Dear Mike Frysinger,

might want to check out the thread i started over a year ago: [u-boot] core ticks/timer code it delves into these internals and may help you here -mike

Thanks for the hint, and sorry to have started the topic again ;)

However it seems no resolution has come up since then.

For me it seems useful to keep both functions and have ticks increment at a hardware-convenient rate. If the hardware timer can be prescaled to increment at 1000 Hz that is fine, but I see no immediate need for that. If the hardware cannot be prescaled, and software would need to do a 64 bit multiply/divide on each timer read, that would really be overkill.

timer_reset() prevents you to have nested timeouts (if that ever comes up)

Reinhard