Why decrementer

[Leon Pollak]

Hello, all.

Is here somebody who can explain the reason why the RTEMS system clock for the 
mpc8260 CPU is implemented with decrementer (with all its problems) and not 
with PIT (as it was in mpc8xx)?

Many thanks ahead.

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