From owner-cvs-sys Tue Mar 4 03:06:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA15971 for cvs-sys-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15966; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:06:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.3/8.6.9) id WAA05969; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:04:25 +1100 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 22:04:25 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199703041104.WAA05969@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dg@root.com, gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Sender: owner-cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>Since there is a pause while the clocks are calibrated, perhaps a >>simple `Calibrating clocks\n' style message for the nonverbose case? >>Would that keep most/all people happy? > > The pause isn't long enough to matter. No message should be emitted. Someone reported a 15 (?) minute pause with buggy hardware. The timeout is too generous, but I'm not sure how much it can be reduced by without breaking the calibration on slow machines. I reduced it by a factor of 100 locally. Bruce