Re: [Etherboot-developers] timer question

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"Timothy Legge" <tl...@ro...> writes:

> Answered my own question.  It looks like mdelay is milliseconds and it
> is made up of 1000 udelays.  

Correct.

mdelay is milliseconds.
udelay is microseconds.  

It comes from the fact that the symbol for micro looks quite a bit
like a u with a tail.  Well that and the fact that the compiler
would have a hard time if both the milli second and the micro second
delays were named mdelay :)

Eric