Re: [RFC] new timeofday core subsystem (v.A1)

[john stultz]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:44, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, john stultz wrote:
> 
> > +struct timesource_t {
> > +	char* name;
> > +	int priority;
> > +	enum {
> > +		TIMESOURCE_FUNCTION,
> > +		TIMESOURCE_MMIO_32,
> > +		TIMESOURCE_MMIO_64
> > +	} type;
> > +	cycle_t (*read_fnct)(void);
> > +	void* ptr;
> > +	cycle_t mask;
> > +	u32 mult;
> > +	u32 shift;
> > +};
> 
> Maybe add TIMESOURCE_CPU or so? How can one specify a time source in a
> cpu register?

Yea, for now its a function. I was thinking that get_cycles() could be
used as an arch independent way to do this. 

Good suggestion! 
Thanks!
-john

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