Luis Miguel Pinho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some old code, that used the exported functions of the patched
> kernel.
> Not real-time linux itself, only the timer related exported functions.
> I think that the code worked with rtl 0.6.
> While testing that code with rtl 1.2 I've seen that rt_get_time is no
> longer
> exported by the kernel, and instead it just calls do_rt_get_time.
> Could someone tell me why there is the need for a pointer to a function? It
> seems to me that the real function to get time, rt_get_time_pentium or
> <sorry forgot the other one> :) will be dynamically chosen. Is that true?
Yes. The system dynamically determines whether or not the TSC counter
is supported by the CPU and modifies the pointer accordingly.
Michael.
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