The BSP porting guide[1] includes this warning when talking about the benchmark timer driver:
> The Timer Driver is superfluous and should be replaced by the RTEMS counter support. Ask on the mailing list if you plan to write a Timer Driver. We also have this[2] open ticket about the same issue. It seems like this might be a part of the BSP's clock driver, exposed through the "_CPU_Counter_read" function. Is that right? The tests in ./testsuites/tmtests/ do call several benchmark_timer_* functions, so I imagine the warning means that we can implement these functions using the counter instead of reading the hardware timer by itself as the guide shows? (For context: this is relevant to my GSoC plan for the x86_64 port and BSP; I'd like to architect it to be of a style which the RTEMS community deems ideal, despite other BSPs not quite being there yet, understandably.) [1] https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/bsp-howto/timer.html [2] https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2847 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
