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Patrick O'Grady wrote:
>
> Hi, all... I keep noticing how a platform's interval timer is referred to as the
> real time clock in the eCos source code. Would it be better to refer to this as
> just the interval timer? In the case of the i386/PC, we have another actual real
> time clock which keeps actual real time automatically but has lousy resolution
> (only 1 second). Since the interval timer uses an input frequency that isn't
> conducive to maintaining actual seconds, it might be better to avoid implying
> that it generates actual real-time data. There is also a convienent mode that
> the pc's real time clock has: I can set an alarm which triggers an interrupt after
> a specific time of day; this may help reduce overhead implementing some alarms.