Re: What are the different timer that exists in the kernel?

2008-09-20 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Peter Teoh wrote: Q1: the assembly instruction: rdtsc will always get its clocking from PIT right? I doubt it. I believe on x86 RDTSC just reads a bunch of registers updated by the CPU when it ticks. It's not really a separate programmable piece of hardware. Q2: the remark for

Re: What are the different timer that exists in the kernel?

2008-09-20 Thread Raz
The bellow is a list of Linux timers listed in Bovet's[1] Book. 2.1 PIT - programmable interval timer PIT is Linux default scheduler timer. Its frequency is 1KHZ at best. 2.2 TSC - Time Stamp counter All x86 processors include a CLK processor input pin. The processor has a timer which

Re: Automatic USB drive detection/Disconnection in user application!!!

2008-09-20 Thread V . Ravikumar
Please look into /proc/bus/usb/devices file newly plugged in/off usb devices Also go through Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt Regards, Ravikumar. On 9/19/08, Nalajala Murali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need a solution for the below problem. When the USB got detected by the kernel ( Linux