From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 30 2: 3:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0A837B425 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:03:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2UA2le7031214; Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:02:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Cc: David Malone , Kyle Butt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Superfast clock on current. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:29:17 +0100." <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:02:47 +0100 Message-ID: <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >In message <20020326100455.GA37656@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes: >>On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:59:29AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> This is an interesting machine: A K6 wiht ACPI, havn't seen that >>> before. >> >>I had one of these machines and concluded that the ACPI time counter >>was busted. I dunno if it is possible to sanity check the time >>counter before using it? I just switched to using the TSC early in >>boot and forgot about it. > >That is what I try to do, and I recently rewrote the code in current >for that exact reason, so I'm very interested in seeing the diagnostic >output (boot -v) from a -current kernel on these motherboards. I've stared at the data file and I'll be damned if I can find anything which would case the clock to double its speed :-( -- 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message