Re: Timer interrupt on Linux 3.0.3

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I had the same issue with an MPC885 board. My kernel was 2.6.33. On
that board decrementer exception was not working. I replaced the
board, took new board (MPC885 only, just another board) and the same
kernel worked fine. I don't know how the problem was solved.

-Mohan

On 9/22/11, Scott Wood <scottwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/21/2011 01:56 AM, Vineeth wrote:
>>>> What was the issue?  You really should try to make this work rather than
>>>> hack around it.
>>
>> what we found was the decrementer is not generating an exception when it
>> becomes 0. and the timebase registers are not getting incremented too.
>
> Does the decrementer actually tick until it reaches zero, or do it and
> the timebase never tick?
>
> Is the TBEN input to the CPU asserted?
>
> -Scott
>
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