garrett_damore@tadpole.com wrote:

> I wrote the following patch which converts newsmips to tc.
> 
> In this change:
> 
> 1) only NWS-5000 has a high resolution timer
> 2) the timer NEWS5000_FREERUN is assumed to tick once per usec.  That
> seems what the current code.
> 3) I assume it wraps on a 32-bit boundary (i.e counts 0-ffffffff)
> 
> If these assumptions are good, then the code should run.  I don't have
> news docs, so I'm just interpreting the pre-existing code.  I'd
> appreciate it if folks can test, and commit as appropriate.

I've just tried it, but it looks news5000_init() is too early
to call tc_init(), because news5000_init() is called from
mach_init(), before main() (though it seems to work):

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NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(tsutsui@mirage, Sun Aug 27 19:42:01 JST 2006)
Booting scsi(0,0)
2711984+184448 [94576+84133]=0x2ef014

timecounter: Timecounter "news5000_freerun" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
timecounter: selected timecounter "news5000_freerun" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 4.99.1 (GENERIC) #12: Wed Sep 13 22:07:32 JST 2006
        tsutsui@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/newsmips/compile/GENERIC
total memory = 127 MB
avail memory = 120 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
SONY NET WORK STATION, Model NWS-5000, Machine ID #14668
mainbus0 (root)
 :
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I think it's better to move tc_init() in news5000.c from news5000_init()
to news5000_enable_timer() (before enabling timer interrupt):

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scsibus0 at spifi0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
spifi1 at ap0 slot0 addr 0xbe380000: SCSI ID = 7, using dmac1
scsibus1 at spifi1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
xb at ap0 slot0 addr 0xb4900000 not configured
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: selected timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "news5000_freerun" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
timecounter: selected timecounter "news5000_freerun" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST12550N, 0013> disk fixed
sd0: 2040 MB, 2708 cyl, 19 head, 81 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4178874 sectors
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On regressions, both sleeping and time just work successfully,
and ping(8) also shows reasonable time.

I have not tested it on NWS-3470D, but "clockinterrupt" should just work..
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Izumi Tsutsui