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Date:      Sat, 5 Sep 1998 07:46:21 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bzero bandwidth computation
Message-ID:  <199809050746.AAA00692@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4436.904925511@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 4, 98 06:11:51 pm

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> I agree, but we were more wrong before, we just wouldn't notice.
> 
> I'm working on a scheme where we track the RTC without going to a
> 1/128Hz granularity, but it is non-trivial.

How would this work on a system without an RTC at all?

I can see at least one place in the calibration that would
break (from 0xff always equalling 0xff, instead of ticking
forward to discern a second boundary).

I am thinking about how hard it will be to provide some of these
integrated services on other platforms...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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