I had the same issue with an MPC885 board. My kernel was 2.6.33. On that board decrementer exception was not working. I replaced the board, took new board (MPC885 only, just another board) and the same kernel worked fine. I don't know how the problem was solved.
-Mohan On 9/22/11, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com> wrote: > On 09/21/2011 01:56 AM, Vineeth wrote: >>>> What was the issue? You really should try to make this work rather than >>>> hack around it. >> >> what we found was the decrementer is not generating an exception when it >> becomes 0. and the timebase registers are not getting incremented too. > > Does the decrementer actually tick until it reaches zero, or do it and > the timebase never tick? > > Is the TBEN input to the CPU asserted? > > -Scott > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
