The 8260's 1 second timer is only useful if your hardware clocks the "RTC" clock input at the proper rate. A lot of embedded boards don't bother because the usefulness of having another crystal on the board just to clock a counter is very tenuous.
gvb At 07:23 AM 5/10/2002 -0700, Allen Curtis wrote: >FYI: There is a 1 second timer in the 8260 that could be used. (Assuming >that I understand what you are referring to) I am not sure why m8260_setup.c >just sets/returns a global variable but there is/was a note there mentioning >the 1 second timer. This is what we are using. It is actually started in our >BIOS but could be done just as easily in the setup routine. > > > My platform uses an 8260 processor, and AFAIK there is no RTC. > > The function > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
