On 09/16/2011 06:43 AM, Vineeth wrote: > Hi, > > We are porting Linux on MPC7410 based board. As there was some issue > with the processor DECrementer and timebase registers, What was the issue? You really should try to make this work rather than hack around it. > lately we moved to Linux 3.0.3. What we found was even without a proper > timer, the kernel with initramfs worked (except the calls like > sleep,delay ofcourse); Is there any major difference in the scheduler ? > or the way context switch happens ? is it not depended on the timer > interrupt or the timer ?? If your timer is broken then you won't get timeslice expiration, but basic scheduling should still work. Most scheduling (depending on type of load, of course) will be triggered by processes blocking or being woken up by I/O, not timeslice expiration. -Scott -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
