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Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:32:47 +0900 (JST)
From: Fation Sevrani <fation@abe.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp>
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Subject: Calibrating Clocks
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	I have a Gateway2000 P5-100 running FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP which I 
 down-loaded last night. During booting there are some messages which I 
 don't understand and have no idea of what impact will they have in the 
 behavior of the system. This is a part of /var/log/messages file:

>May 18 20:16:11 topgun /kernel: FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP #0: Wed May  1 14:09:30  1996
>May 18 20:16:11 topgun /kernel:     jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>May 18 20:16:11 topgun /kernel: Calibrating clock(s) relative to mc146818A clock ... i586 clock: 99471631 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193158 Hz
>May 18 20:16:11 topgun /kernel: CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: CLK_USE_I586_CALIBRATION not specified - using old calibration method
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: i586 clock: 0 Hz
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: CPU: Pentium (99.46-MHz 586-class CPU)
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel:   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x525  Stepping=5
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel:   Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: avail memory = 14602240 (14260K bytes)
>May 18 20:16:12 topgun /kernel: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
>.........

What does it mean i586 clock: 0 Hz ?


Thanks

fation@abe.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp