On 07/21/2014 10:37 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> It's trying to measure clock cycles required to perform the startup
>> relocations.
>
> That's a neat trick, given that the generic timers are not cycle
> counters! They're a fixed frequency counter which is generally
> unrelated and rather slower than the CPU frequency (and
> which doesn't scale up and down with CPU frequency either).
On 07/21/2014 10:37 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> It's trying to measure clock cycles required to perform the startup
>> relocations.
>
> That's a neat trick, given that the generic timers are not cycle
> counters! They're a fixed frequency counter which is generally
> unrelated and rather slower than the CPU frequency (and
> which doesn't scale up and down with CPU frequency either).
Even better.
r~