[OpenBIOS] milliseconds isn't unique
Mark Cave-Ayland
mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Sun Apr 26 20:15:37 CEST 2015
On 22/04/15 02:48, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 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.
Yeah sadly OpenBIOS doesn't implement "warning off" yet. I know this is
needed for Solaris 64-bit boot, so at the very minimum there needs to be
a dummy word in place...
ATB,
Mark.
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