Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:26:52 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 machdep.c Message-ID: <50355.1096576012@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:40:21 %2B0200." <20040930214021.A84755@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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In message <20040930214021.A84755@newtrinity.zeist.de>, Marius Strobl writes: >> Funny you should ask. Testing the first version of this patch was how >> we found the bug in counter.c - the machine I booted the test kernel >> with happened to decide the counter-timer wasn't suitable either due >> to the bug and it came up with no timecounters. You should see what >> happens to a machine that's not keeping time. :-) I know :-) I wrote the code so you wouldn't be in doubt something was wrong. >> We are drastically low on timecounter-capable devices on sparc64 >> though, it seems the counter-timer and the CPU are about all there >> is. We just need one good one, so as long as they have that we're fine. I thought the 1usec counter were a sparc-architecture thing which all machines had ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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