Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD, In message <20090331113956.gd28...@game.jcrosoft.org> you wrote: > > > Agreed (except that we probably cannot completely throw away the > > tick; IIRC there are cases in early startup when nothing else is > > available yet). > not necessarely you can activate the timer just after the cpu_init > so normally you do not need any get_ticks.
Please check for example the PowerPC code, then. Ther ethe timer implementation relies heavily on interrupts and is not available in early stages, for example in NAND booting systems with tight memory restrictions. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interoperability among some of their equipment." - Harv Masterson _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot