So this basically means that the microkernel has its own driver code for
the timing hardware?

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Harry Butterworth <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If you look at the abstract spec starting at call_kernel in Syscall_A and
> working in towards timer_tick in Interrupt_A, you'll see that a timer
> interrupt results in a call to timer_tick which decrements the current
> thread's time slice and interacts with the scheduler through
> reschedule_required if the thread or domain time slice expires.  You could
> investigate to see how closely the C code corresponds.
>
> On 11 November 2015 at 16:19, Raymond Jennings <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Where does the seL4 microkernel actually get the timing information it
>> needs to enforce scheduling decisions?
>>
>> I can imagine some sort of interrupt or I/O access is required to get it
>> from the raw hardware.
>>
>> How does it get from the timing hardware to the scheduling code?
>>
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