[OpenBIOS] milliseconds isn't unique

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 22 03:48:06 CEST 2015


On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 01:22:37PM +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > 2015-04-15 23:54:36: milliseconds isn't unique.
> 
> Yeah, it's harmless. It's there because I moved SPARC over to use an
> interrupt-driven counter for milliseconds with the eventual aim of
> adding alarms if required. However since this isn't yet complete, the
> fallback is for PPC to redefine its own milliseconds word based on the
> CPU tick register which is why the warning appears on the serial console.

Other Forth systems use "warning off" around deliberate redefinitions,
you might want to do the same.


Segher



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