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authorAndrew Waterman <andrew@sifive.com>2021-11-26 17:25:45 -0800
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Avoid use of "timebase"
This is the only place it's used in the whole spec, so eschew it.
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@@ -2453,7 +2453,7 @@ of that extension.
Platforms provide a real-time counter, exposed as a memory-mapped
machine-mode read-write register, {\tt mtime}. {\tt mtime} must
increment at constant frequency, and the platform must provide a
-mechanism for determining the timebase of {\tt mtime}. The {\tt
+mechanism for determining the period of an {\tt mtime} tick. The {\tt
mtime} register will wrap around if the count overflows.
The {\tt mtime} register has a 64-bit precision on all RV32 and RV64