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Re: Timer tick length
- To: grante at visi dot com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Timer tick length
- From: andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch (Andrew Lunn)
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:24:08 +0200 (MET DST)
- Cc: gthomas at redhat dot com, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
> While it looks like both of these could be made to work, I
> think there is a need for a macro that can be used to create a
> compile-time constant that represents the number of ticks
> required for a specified period of time -- something that could
> be used inside an ISR without worrying about the execution
> speed, or could be used as a static initializer.
Something like the Linux Kernel HZ would be good.
Andrew