From 0cc9b0a8bdf774ee376937d5a6767ccdced51245 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: user Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:10:04 +0200 Subject: kernel: a real timer source (64 Hz tick IRQ) + uptime(1) The kernel had no clock: TimerISR was a reti stub, IEF_TIMER masked, and IME was never enabled - the vectors were decorative. sys_sleep just polls DIV deltas per-process; nothing counted globally. Now: TAC runs the hardware timer at 16384 Hz with TMA=0, so TIMA overflows at exactly 64 Hz; TimerISR increments a monotonic 32-bit wTicks (wraps after ~2.1 years). Scheduling stays cooperative - the ISR is transparent. Enabling IME in a kernel written for zero interrupts needs care wherever SP points into memory whose bank is being switched (an IRQ pushes onto SP): - read_block/write_block map the disk bank over the $A000 window that holds the caller's stack -> di/ei around the transfer (~2ms, well under the 15.6ms tick period, so no tick is ever lost) - hSwitchTo switches SVBK + cart-RAM banks under the outgoing stack -> di on entry, ei once the incoming stack is mapped - fork already runs on KSTACK_TOP2 (fixed WRAM) - safe as-is - term_putc's SVBK switch only remaps $Dxxx, stacks live in $Axxx/$Cxxx SYS_UPTIME (36) copies the counter (4B LE, di/ei so the read can't tear) to a user buffer; libc gticks(); usr/uptime.c formats 'up [Nd] H:MM:SS'. uptime avoids SDCC long div/shift entirely: sm83.lib modules link into their own areas that land in the $A000 RAM window (latent build.sh trap, documented there) - bytewise >>6 plus bounded subtraction loops instead. --- usr/gbos.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'usr/gbos.h') diff --git a/usr/gbos.h b/usr/gbos.h index 2350665..5fd897a 100644 --- a/usr/gbos.h +++ b/usr/gbos.h @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ unsigned char pollcon(void); /* poll console ring (link-injected input, filled by net pumps), or 0 */ unsigned char sys_net(void *req); /* socket layer trap (see sock.h) */ void gsleep(unsigned char units); /* delay units*(1/64)s (raw trap) */ +void gticks(unsigned char buf[4]); /* 64 Hz uptime ticks, 32-bit LE */ void msleep(unsigned int ms); /* delay ~ms milliseconds */ /* helpers (c/libc.c) */ -- cgit v1.3.1-sl0p