Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:06:31 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] (comments requested) adding finer-grained timing to PPC add_timer_randomness() |
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I'd like some comments on the following patch. > > This patch is designed to add finer-grained timing (similar to the i386 timing) > to add_timer_randomness(). The only tricky bit is that the PPC601 doesn't > support the timebase registers. Accordingly, I've added a flag to the PPC port > that is used to keep track of whether or not the processor supports the timebase > register. > > Is there a better way to keep track of this information? i386 has a struct with > useful information stored, but it doesn't look like PPC does. > > Thanks, > > Chris
>From the patch:
--- linux-2.2.19-clean/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c Sun Mar 25 11:31:49 2001 +++ linux-2.2.19/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c Wed Aug 22 16:34:51 2001 ... +extern int have_timebase = 1; ... --- linux-2.2.19-clean/include/asm-ppc/processor.h Sun Mar 25 11:31:08 2001 +++ linux-2.2.19/include/asm-ppc/processor.h Wed Aug 22 16:34:51 2001 ... +extern int have_timebase; ... Hrmm...
Am I missing something, or should at least one of these not be extern?
-- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>
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