--- vany s <vany_29_2002@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > m writing a PCI IDE driver module and basically i IDE? Oh-boy. Good luck! > want my driver to implement all delays/sleeps in terms > of clockticks usingthe system frequency as input .. > The problem that im facing is that this frequency is > defined as HZ on all i386 machines which is equal to > 100 ..(100 clockticks per sec) so how do i send the > high resolution time values i.e micro and nanosec > waits in terms of ticks so as to schedule a > wait/timeout for that many ticks? ( I do not want to > tune the kernel parameter to change the system > frequency from 100 to a larger value either) > > Pls let me know your inputs > micro and milli-second delays are already implemented. nano you'll have to do yourself. See the following link, and scroll down to "short delays". http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch06.html#t3 Harmony, --Christine __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
