Dear Reinhard Meyer, In message <4de47ea1.1090...@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote: > > All you can throw into the timer discussion is critics and pointless remarks, > but I miss any productive input from you except sometimes pointing out how > powerpc does it.
Thanks you very much. > We DO have most of the tick based functions in the current API... There are a number of good reasons NOT to use ticks on the external API level. They have been explained before. Go and re-read the archived. > And as it seems, the current ms based API is a Pandora's box of problems: > - granularity problems in some hardware > - early timeouts that need complicated solutions inside the loop > - complicated algorithms to convert a natural, non-ms tick into ms values > > All this would go if the timer would be left in natural ticks of the hardware > and simple helper functions be used to convert to and from that to ms, if so > desired: You obviously ignore a lof things here. I will not repeat all the stuff again for you. Go and re-read the thread. > Perhaps just too simple and too brilliant... It's a shame others don't agree blindly, isn't it? Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot