As pointed out in the following thread, the CLOCK_TICK_RATE setting for
IXP4xx is incorrect b/c the HW ignores the lowest 2 bits of the LATCH
value.
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2005-August/030950.html
Tnx to George Anziger and Egil Hjelmeland for finding the issue.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/*
* We use IXP425 General purpose timer for our timer needs, it runs at
- * 66.66... MHz
+ * 66.66... MHz. We do a convulted calculation of CLOCK_TICK_RATE b/c the
+ * timer register ignores the bottom 2 bits of the LATCH value.
*/
-#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (66666666)
+#define FREQ 66666666
+#define CLOCK_TICK_RATE (((FREQ / HZ & ~IXP4XX_OST_RELOAD_MASK) + 1) * HZ)