> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:56 PM > To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 > Cc: qemu-...@nongnu.org; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; ag...@suse.de; Wood Scott- > B07421; Bhushan Bharat-R65777 > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2]booke: timer: Deactivate timer for > target_bit above 61 > > On 10 June 2013 08:55, Bharat Bhushan <r65...@freescale.com> wrote: > > QEMU timer supports a maximum timer of INT64_MAX. So starting timer > > only for time which is calculated using target_bit < 62 and > > deactivate/stop timer if the target bit is above 61. > > Is this really what the hardware does? Or do we need to set a timer for the > maximum QEMU allows and then reset it for the residual time when the first > timer > expires?
No, this is not how hardware works. But the time with the maximum target bit of 61 (with current range of CPU frequency PowerPC supports) will be many many years. So I think it is pretty safe to stop the timer. Thanks -Bharat > > thanks > -- PMM
