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Date:      Sat, 03 Feb 1996 11:24:07 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) 
Message-ID:  <5991.823343047@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 1996 19:13:06 %2B1030." <199602030843.TAA01018@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 

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> All this is a little hypothetical just now, as I'm concentrating on the 
> watchdog card.  If it works out, it should do the basics, and with a TXCO
> on it should give a good, stable frequency reference.  Accessing it
> won't be fast, sorry Bruce 8(

The bit Bruce said about the 64bit counter is important.  Can you make
it so that the count is latched when you read the LSB so that the
count read is atomic ?

Also, consider putting it on an IDE cable, it may be faster actually...

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