Mark Kettenis:

> > There is the strong suspicion that the 0x7fffffff mask in the various
> > armv7 timecounters was simply copied from powerpc, and that these really
> > are full 32-bit counters.
> > 
> > I wanted to verify this from the data sheets, but I'm insufficiently
> > familiar with the ARM ecosystem to locate those.
> 
> The counter is described in the ARM Architecture Reference Manual.  It
> was introduced later so you need to look at revision C or later.

Found it.  That's agtimer.

amptimer is the global timer in the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore Technical
Reference Manual.  It's a 64-bit counter.

For gptimer, I've found the OMAP4460 Technical Reference Manual.
It's a 32-bit counter.

So they should be all fine with 0xffffffff.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]

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