[flashrom] [PATCH] Clean up delay loop calibration

[Maciej Pijanka]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> Ping?
> This cleanup is part 1/2 to make flashrom work with clang and unbreak
> the delay calculation.
> If the new style code is OK, I'll submit part 2/2 which makes heavy use
> of the new style code to get timing accuracy of +-10% even in case of
> CPU speed variations. Considering that the current code relies on the
> dumbness of the optimizer in the C compiler and still manages to make
> all delays twice as long as intended, I hope we can get the fixed code
> in before 0.9.2.

Imo looks fine, 
on one machine and nic3com i get
Calibrating delay loop... 95M loops per second, 10 myus = 23 us, 100 myus = 202 us, 1000 myus = 2042 us, 10000 myus = 20020 us, OK.
same machine but mainboard interface (internal)
Calibrating delay loop... 94M loops per second, 10 myus = 23 us, 100 myus = 199 us, 1000 myus = 1972 us, 10000 myus = 19784 us, OK.

still bit far from 10uS = 10myus 

anyway i think it won't break anything

Acked-by: Maciej Pijanka <maciej.pijanka at gmail.com>

> 
> On 06.03.2010 04:28, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Note: This patch is the first step towards a better delay loop
> > calibration which will work regardless of how smart the C compiler is.
> >
> > Clean up code duplication and measure timing of 10/100/1000/10000 us delays.
> > Add copyright notices for my past and current work on this file.
> >
> > If possible, please run the following command a few times and mail the
> > output to flashrom at flashrom.org
> > flashrom -V|grep delay
> >   
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> 

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Maciej Pijanka
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