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Date:      Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:14:30 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_ktr.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012140006070.2229-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001212083931.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 12-Dec-00 Bruce Evans wrote:
> > Mutex operations actually resulted only on the i386 arch, only if the
> > i8254 timecounter was used (i.e., mainly on pre-PCI pre-Pentium
> > systems)...
> 
> It would crash both my dual P3-600 and my P3-700 laptop, so it wasn't limited
> to just pre-PCI. :-/  ...

The PIIX4 timecounter is used on many PCI systems.  I was over-optimistic
in hoping that most post-Pentium PCI systems have one.  What chipsets do
your systems have?

Bruce



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