Subject: Re: TB - Time Base Register
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 22:35:22 MST
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Steve Poole wrote:
> Before I go off and start recursive grep'ing the kernel source, can anyone
> shed any light on the implementation of the TB register under Linux ? This
> register takes the place of the old Power RTC. The esoteric question here
> is under Linux, what is a tick ? i.e. how many nano-seconds ?
10ms I believe... aka a jiffie. :)
But I'm not the one to ask. The real place to ask kernel implementation
details is linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org.
-Hollis
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