Paolo Mantegazza wrote:
>
> Dirk Alders wrote:
> >
> > Working in RTAI I wondered what's the sense of the value period in
> > rt_start_timer(period). Starting the timer with 1s I'm still able to use
> > timerfunctions with times of 10 us.
> >
> > Which value shall I use and why?
>
> - 1) recall that period must be in internal count unit, use
> nano2count(nanosec);
OK, that's clear
> - 2) period cannot be l> than 10 ms if you use a periodic timer, if you
> use > 10 ms the timers defaults to 10 ms, so I suspect that you mean 10
> ms above, not 10 us;
> - if you are using a oneshot modo period is of no use, and you can call
> rt_start_timer with whatever value you want.
But which other functions are affected by the timerperiod in periodic
mode? And in which way?
Thanks, Dirk
>
> Ciao, Paolo.
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