On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 18:02 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > In fact, while it's never worded explicitely in the spec, it's always
> > been strongly in the "spirit" of the architecture that the timebase and
> > decrementer have a constant frequency.
>
> The architecture mentions varying time base frequencies,
> and how to deal with this, actually. It makes no
> recommendations one way or the other.
I might be mixing up with PAPR... anyway, it's very stupid to vary it
imho. And as I just said, I have about 0 plan to imlement support for
such a contraption.
> Fixed frequencies are easier for almost everything of
> course :-)
Yup.
> > This is why processors like the
> > 970 allow for an external sourcing for when they are used in setups
> > where the various clocks are slewed for power management.
>
> Clock spreading on the core clock is the bigger problem,
> lack of accuracy on the order of 1% is unacceptable for
> certain applications.
That too.
Ben.
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