In message <199508151550.LAA10934@pain.lcs.mit.edu>, Chris G Demetriou writes:
> >    Is there a standard way of delaying for less than 1 us in the kernel?
> >    [ ... ]
> > 
> > Is not the 'hz' variable available to your routines?  At boot time you
> > could use it to calculate delay constants for the driver, perhaps
> > implement a delay200ns() macro which will use this driver constant in
> > a decrementing loop to get the accuracy you are looking for.
> 
> you could only do so via a timing loop (while (timeout--)).  No
> machines supported by NetBSD have microsecond granularity supported
> directly by clock interrupts, and few have cycle counters.
> 
> rather, i'd think that a routine like "delay 200ns" would be provided
> to the machine-independent part of the driver by the machine-dependent
> part, i.e. as one of the "interface" routines.  that's not an
> unreasonable demand to place on the MD code (because, at worst, if
> poor performance were OK, it could just define the function to
> DELAY(1)).
> 

Hmm, I already sent this to the original author, but here goes nothing.
There should be a reasonable way to have a high-res timer in the OS,
with only a small bit of help from the MD code.  The MD code should
supply a "scale" factor to the MI code, which it can use to scale the
number supplied to a micro_delay() routine.  To make this scale
factor, run a loop (of some sort) against the DELAY(1) timer.  Do
we have ALARM(1)?  ;-)

I'm a scatterbrain today... hope this makes sense.

--Toby.
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