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From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
To: "Oleg I. Vdovikin" <vdovikin@jscc.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: alpha - generic_init_pit - why using RTC for calibration?
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:43:06 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010705134306.A2071@jurassic.park.msu.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <022901c10095$f4fca650$4d28d0c3@jscc.ru> <20010629211931.A582@jurassic.park.msu.ru> <20010704114530.A1030@twiddle.net> <003e01c10522$1c9cf580$4d28d0c3@jscc.ru>
In-Reply-To: <003e01c10522$1c9cf580$4d28d0c3@jscc.ru>; from vdovikin@jscc.ru on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:14:19AM +0400

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:14:19AM +0400, Oleg I. Vdovikin wrote:
>     Richard, thanks. But please use calibrate_cc version which I've submited
> as a patch - it gives more accuracy with maximum latch we can ever use and

With both variants even on a 166MHz CPU you'll get above 1e-7 precision,
which is way above accuracy of any crystal oscillator.

> has cc's type changed to 'unsigned int' to prevent problems when rpcc
> overflows.

The only difference is that you'll have extra 'zap' instruction converting
'unsigned int' to 'unsigned long'.

Ivan.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-05  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-29 12:20 alpha - generic_init_pit - why using RTC for calibration? Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-06-29 17:19 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2001-07-02  9:52   ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-07-03 13:06     ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-07-04 18:45   ` [patch] " Richard Henderson
2001-07-05  7:14     ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
     [not found]       ` <3B441618.638A3FC@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-07-05  8:36         ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-07-05  8:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-06  8:45             ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-07-05  9:43       ` Ivan Kokshaysky [this message]
2001-07-06  9:03         ` Oleg I. Vdovikin
2001-07-06 12:00           ` Ivan Kokshaysky

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