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Well, the fallback solution can be "no eventtimer, just call wait; and
document the shortcomings."

I'll see about implementing the workaround outlined in the MIPS24K
software users manual from the MIPS website. Hopefully it fixes my
problem. Is there an XLR specific workaround more suitable to your
workload? What's the Linux codebase do?

Adrian