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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [ECOS] Re: Adjustable wallclock (get/settimeofday, adjtimex)?
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iua3cq$ggp$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E07AFED.6040405@meduna.org>

On 2011-06-26, Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the gettimeofday method in compat/posix is currently implemented
> based on cyg_current_time(), settimeofday is missing.
>
> If I understand it correctly the cyg_current_time() is also
> used for timeout processing all over the code so messing
> with its base is not a good idea.

When I needed to adjust the time to keep it in sync with a real-time
clock, I did it at a lower level by adding hooks into the target's HAL
code that allowed me to gradually slew the cyg_current_time() value by
adjusting the length of a system tick by small amounts.

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Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! I request a weekend in
                                  at               Havana with Phil Silvers!
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-26 22:17 [ECOS] " Stanislav Meduna
2011-06-27  8:17 ` [ECOS] " Daniel Néri
2011-06-27 14:17 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2011-06-27 14:48   ` Stanislav Meduna
2011-06-27 15:14     ` Grant Edwards

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