Frederic GILLIERS wrote:
> 
> Castor Fu wrote:
> 
> > > Some MipsProcessor have the timer on the int5 pin.
> > >
> > > is it supported yet ? And if no, what is missing ?
> >
> > We use the on chip timer to generate hardclock on our internal NetBSD
> > platform.  It's tricky to get this right.  We haven't folded this stuff
> > in because every platform has its own preferred mechanism.
> >
> 
> What kind of problems did you have with this solution ?

It was just tricky to get right, but what we have now does work
really well.  NetBSD doesn't do things like finer than HZ
granularity timeouts so it isn't that hard to get right and
not loose time.


jeffs