Subject: Re: delay patch
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 04/20/2001 21:55:38
On Friday 20 April 2001  2:56 pm, Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <01042010362000.00321@pinky.paradox.demon.co.uk> you write:
> >I've made the patch to improve the delay handling more generic.  What I've
> >done is move the delay routine (and related check and calibration
> > routines) into arch/arm/mainbus/cpu.c.  I've then removed all the delay
> > routines from the different clock files. (iomd, footbridge, ofw and isa)
> > to use the common delay routine that calls microtime.
> >
> >However not having all the bits of hardware to check this works I'd be
> >grateful if people can check that the code still works as expected on all
> >platforms.
>
> You'll need some way to exclude it since (e.g.) hpcarm has its own
> implementation of delay().  Either that or rip out the hpcarm
> implementation as well.

It's probably best to take it out of hpcarm as well then, as it is common 
code.  common enough to possibly be shared by arm26?

> Incidentally, since this affects shared ARM code, you should probably be
> discussing this in port-arm (CCed), not port-arm32.

Doh, old habits, yes this should be on port-arm.

Cheers,
Chris