Re: Porting Fiasco+L4re to DaVinci DA850 - Linux time wrong

On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 09:03 +1000, Peter Howard wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 00:50 +0200, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:
> > On Tue May 20, 2014 at 10:47:03 +1000, Peter Howard wrote:
> > > I've now got L4Linux running on top of Fiasco+L4re on the DA850. However
> > > there appears to be something wrong with the time.  Time seems to be
> > > passing at a rate of 10-1 (i.e. 1 elapsed second == 10 reported seconds)
> > > in Linux.  If I change the default Hz rating  the L4Linux config (from
> > > 100Hz) in either direction L4Linux either hangs or slows down
> > > dramatically.  If I change the period in the timer driver (in the Fiasco
> > > bsp directory) things hang earlier.
> > > 
> > > For the Fiasco BSP I'm using:
> > >       * timer_tick-single-vector for timer_tick_IMPL,
> > >       * clock_generic for clock_IMPL,
> > >       * a da850 timer driver for timer_IMPL.
> > > 
> > > Can someone enlighten me as to how it should work?
> > 
> > I wonder whether Fiasco's timer has the proper frequency. hello's "Hello
> > World" should be displayed once a second. Is that the case or is it
> > more/less often?
> > 
> 
> It spits out "Hello World!" _way_ faster than once per second.
> Something like 15-20 times a second.  So the problem is in Fiasco.
> 

OK, tuning the Interval value in my timer class so that "Hello World!"
started coming out at the proper 1 second interval fixed the time in
L4Linux.  I'd played with that value before my post, but clearly
over-compensated.


Thanks.


-- 
Peter Howard <[email protected]>