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Date:      Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:23:49 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Raise your hand if you know how to make this work.
Message-ID:  <199709250723.AAA09638@usr03.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970924190931.742C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Sep 24, 97 07:15:43 pm

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> > 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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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