RE: Timed wait/sleep

2007-07-07 Thread Amin Azez
-devel@gnu.org Sent: 06/07/07 23:21 Subject: Re: Timed wait/sleep On 06 Jul 2007 17:04:19 -0500, Haudy Kazemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 6 2007, Alex Roman wrote: I'd avoid straight loops...with those you run into processor speed issues...runs too fast on new CPUs, runs too slow on old

Timed wait/sleep

2007-07-06 Thread Alex Roman
Hello, Is there any mechanism to wait/sleep for a specified time in GRUB? The reason I need something like this is that, for the ATA driver I am working on, I need to be able to wait for a memory mapped register to change, but I don't want to wait indefinitely. I'd like to be able to have some