Hi Arjan, Just to clarify, are you referring to the h/w timer module that has been set as the clocksource. I am looking forward to use the rest of the 8 timer channels from the external timer for my dedicated application usage.
Regards, Tom On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM, MeForMeego Meego <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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