ia64 clock_gettime and HP_TIMING

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Mon Nov 17 23:39:00 GMT 2003


Jes,

>>>>> On 14 Nov 2003 04:36:55 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> said:

>>>>> "David" == David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:
>>>>> On 13 Nov 2003 08:27:40 -0500, Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org> said:
  David> All platforms with drifting cycle-counters have a common
  David> (CPU-external) high-precision timer, so shouldn't you be
  David> using that instead of returning an error?

  Jes> Can you point me to some specs for that and I'll take a look at
  Jes> cooking up a patch?

I suspect you may have found it in the meantime, but if not, googling for
"hpet specification" yields:

   http://www.intel.com/labs/platcomp/hpet/hpetspec.htm

	--david



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