From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 00:27:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA02321 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA02309 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA09638; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 00:23:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709250723.AAA09638@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Raise your hand if you know how to make this work. To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:23:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 24, 97 07:15:43 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Note: this is about twice as fast as the standard clock can go; at > > the highest divider, it's only capable of 8192 interrupts a second. > > If we are still talking about an 8253 I know you to be wrong here, the > frequency varies like 1.9MHz/(1-65535). This information is from the Linux tier code and from the FreeBSD clock divider code for the PC audio driver, and not from the chipset documentation, so I'm prepared to be wrong (along with the comments in both these drivers). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.