Uptime difference between FreeBSD and RTEMS

[Joel Sherrill]

On 4/1/2015 9:18 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> Would you then subtract 1 from uptime when reporting it? Or would
> users be expected to know that uptime is off-by-1?
I would prefer we subtract one when reporting to the user.
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Alexander Krutwig
> <alexander.krutwig at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> during my work with FreeBSD timecounters, I found out that the FreeBSD
>> timecounters start with an uptime value of 1 second. Developers of FreeBSD
>> told me that this is due to problems in the ARP code.
>> RTEMS uptime is initialized to an uptime value to 0 seconds.
>> Are there any problems if the configuration of the RTEMS uptime is also
>> initialized to 1 second for synchonization? Else, we would have different
>> values for different API functions which is the second option.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Alexander Krutwig
>>
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