Looks like this commit accidentally removed the line. I've just fixed it, so if you try now it should work.
I think your changes worked because it might have been returning SysTickMajor which increases on the SysTick IRQ. By increasing the SysTick rate you'd got it increasing in smaller steps so it was harder to see if anything was going wrong.
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Looks like this commit accidentally removed the line. I've just fixed it, so if you try now it should work.
I think your changes worked because it might have been returning
SysTickMajor
which increases on the SysTick IRQ. By increasing the SysTick rate you'd got it increasing in smaller steps so it was harder to see if anything was going wrong.