Re: Moving system timer to RTC (was Re: A/D converter)

Balaji Srinivasan (balaji@cplane.com)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:54:59 -0700 (PDT)


> > However, I would guess that latency problems would prevent that...
>
> The second problem, possibly related to the above, is that Linus doesn't
> approve of such an arrangement, so while the PC speaker driver is working like
> this, it's not got a chance of being included in 2.3.x. (This is hearsay - I
> got that second hand at least. Confirmation would be very much appreciated,
> Linus)

I might have jumped in the middle of a discussion out here, but the
better solution to this would be to have UTIME in the kernel. It does
not muck around with the system time much and it does not reprogram
the interrupts to happen more frequently than necessary. While there
are a few bugs in the system the only way to fix those is to have
a much wider test audience.
Check out http://hegel.ittc.ukans.edu/projects/utime for more details.
We are very keen on getting this into the kernel if at all possible
balaji

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