Subject: Re: lack of decent delay (Re: CVS commit: syssrc)
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/16/2001 14:10:42
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> See attached patch, (it's only for iomd based systems though, probably be
> useable on the others though with a bit of tweaking)
>
> If anyone can give me some feedback on the size of the loop used to calibrate
> that'd be good :)  I believe that it needs to be big otherwise it might go
> too fast on the SA It may actually have to be based on the cpu id though, or
> it may take too long on a the 600/700's

It looks fine to me on both a 233 MHz SA-110 and a 40 MHz ARM610.  The
ARM610 takes less than 100ms to do the calibration loop, so you can safely
make it ten times bigger if you want (to allow for even faster CPUs).

> If there are no objections I'll look to check the code in on friday.

Oops.  Maybe I should have failed to object sooner.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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