From owner-cvs-all Sat Jul 28 13:35:30 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (sat.dis.org [216.240.44.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAAB37B403; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6SKb0J02107; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:37:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107282037.f6SKb0J02107@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_timer.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:07:19 BST." <20010728180718.A736@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 13:37:00 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > msmith 2001/07/27 02:01:13 PDT > >=20 > > Modified files: > > sys/dev/acpica acpi_timer.c=20 > > Log: > > The ACPI timer register corruption problem is resolved in the PIIX4 > > starting with the PIIX4M. Restrict enabling the workaround to those > > chips known to be buggy. > > What effect would we observe if the workaround wasn't installed on > buggy chips? I'd expect to see the dreaded "microtime went backwards" messages. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message