Thanks Arjan for the quick response, I am looking for a timer with resolution as low as 16us. Would a normal userspace timer interface be able to provide this? So, was wondering how to decouple and use this apb timer from the normal jiffies/tick timer?
Regards, Tom On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>wrote: > On 1/16/2011 9:23 PM, MeForMeego Meego wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Are there any kernel modules available to access the APB timer through >> device files. I noticed the initialization code for timers in >> arch/x86/kernel/apb_timer.c for mrst platform. >> The init functions in this file are invoked on my dev: board, as seen from >> mgs in log files, but I can't find any /dev files to access these timers. >> > > > the hardware timers are exposed as regular Linux timers... there is no > private/special API for them... just use the normal Linux APIs for userspace > timers..... > >
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