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... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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