Re: Override timer interrupt

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 03:49:02PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:

Is there an easy way to use something other than the decrementer for the
timer interrupt?

Reason i'm asking is tha t on our board, the decrementer cannot be
divided to 1khz evenly, so we have rounding errors for time, but we do
have a 1KHz timer interrupt from an FPGA that is source of a T1 clock.

Right now I let the decrementer interrupt do nothing, and made my own
timer interrupt handler that calls the stuff the timer_interrupt usually
does. 

This works, but there are some instability (ie unexplained hangs) that
showed up when I did this.

I just responded to you on -embedded with this:

"Check out the clocksource stuff.  It let's you set up numerous clock
 sources and set the rating of each one.  You can start looking in
 arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c for example code."

Mark