Philippe, Jan Kiszka wrote: > This patch for SVN trunk fixes most of the current bugs around hardware > timer takeover and release from/to Linux. Tested and found working here > (including SMP): > - 2.6.22, APIC, highres=off, nohz=off > - 2.6.22, APIC, highres=on, nohz=on > - 2.6.20, APIC > > Tests to be done: > - 2.6.22, PIT (currently building...) > - 2.6.20, PIT
To close this topic: Also the tests with APIC switched off were successfully completed yesterday. So the logic should be fine now, ... > > Things became quite complex in i386/hal.c now. Some of this complexity > might be avoidable if RTHAL_APIC_TIMER_VECTOR equalled > LOCAL_TIMER_VECTOR. What's the reason for this? Is it something related > to pre-highres times of Linux (ie. 2.6.20 and earlier)? Can we overcome > it, at least for recent kernels? > > So, while this patch may work correctly, my feeling is it needs yet > another round of polishing, also looking for now possibly outdated comments. > ...just this aspect needs to be addressed. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
