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stepper: Clarify comment on timer-counter configuration
authorBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:58:35 +0000 (17:58 -0500)
committerBen Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:11:01 +0000 (18:11 -0500)
Marlin/stepper.cpp

index 55c09902bc3a96ea56f839e6f96868c0377f1a5e..c3ea41b02d5d9bec3d65c262bcbe1f42a6d034cc 100644 (file)
@@ -740,7 +740,13 @@ void st_init()
   // output mode = 00 (disconnected)
   TCCR1A &= ~(3<<COM1A0); 
   TCCR1A &= ~(3<<COM1B0); 
-  TCCR1B = (TCCR1B & ~(0x07<<CS10)) | (2<<CS10); // 2MHz timer
+  
+  // Set the timer pre-scaler
+  // Generally we use a divider of 8, resulting in a 2MHz timer
+  // frequency on a 16MHz MCU. If you are going to change this, be
+  // sure to regenerate speed_lookuptable.h with
+  // create_speed_lookuptable.py
+  TCCR1B = (TCCR1B & ~(0x07<<CS10)) | (2<<CS10);
 
   OCR1A = 0x4000;
   TCNT1 = 0;