Graeme Russ wrote:
Hi Wolfgang
On Friday, May 27, 2011, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Graeme Russ,
In message BANLkTik2SUm4Sm8aLjCrCmz+kcMGWgEzKw@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Besides, Nios can return an increment of 10 (presumably ms) between two immediately consecutive calls. This causes early timeouts in CFI driver
Now this in turn is a bug in the timer implementation that needs to be fixed.
And this is what reset_timer() corrected.
Agreed, but that is not something I can achieve - I don't want to hold up this whole show that we have all put so much effort into for the sake of one weak function
And I don't want to see something that currently works become broken because we "improved" a feature ... simply because the resolution of the timestamp is 10 msec rather than 1 msec.
And just to be clear. This is not a Nios issue. Currently, if the timestamp is incremented via a fixed period interrupt, and the period of the interrupt is longer that 1 msec, calls to get_timer() may produce early timeouts ... regardless of platform.
--Scott