[En-Nut-Discussion] NutOS system timer for Mega2561

[PragmaLab]

>The reason for using Timer2 instead of Timer0 is quite simple to 
>explain: Check the document "AVR096: Migrating from ATmega128 to
>AT90CAN128" and you find that the functional equivalent of ATmega128's 
>Timer0 is now Timer2 for the new architectures. Atmel likes renaming 
>things. Port pins, Register bits, device names, timers indices etc. They 
>may have a special department dedicated on renaming things even though 
>they are functional the same.

Thank you Henrik, that indeed explains it all. Another 'problem' with Atmel
is that they have at least 3 versions of their 'migrating' documents.....
But thanks to your reply I now know I can safely use Timer0 in our
application.

Best regards,

Rob van Lieshout