Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262348AbTEIIE7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 04:04:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262354AbTEIIE7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 04:04:59 -0400 Received: from denise.shiny.it ([194.20.232.1]:47558 "EHLO denise.shiny.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262348AbTEIIE7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 04:04:59 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3EBAD63C.4070808@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 10:17:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Giuliano Pochini To: Chris Friesen Subject: RE: how to measure scheduler latency on powerpc? realfeel doesn Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 19 On 08-May-2003 Chris Friesen wrote: > > I'm trying to test the scheduler latency on a powerpc platform. It appears that > a realfeel type of program won't work since you can't program /dev/rtc to > generated interrupts on powerpc. Is there anything similar which could be done? If you are using a legacy Mac, you can use the serial port. If you have a sound chip, you can use that one. All archs have a programmable timer, even if /dev/rtc doesn't suport it. Try to ask in the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Bye. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/