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In message: <2087.1060858934@critter.freebsd.dk>
            "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
: In message <200308141017.h7EAHoOI089193@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr
: ites:
: 
: >Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this
: >driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into
: >a port or both?
: 
: The main problem is the code which hi-jacks the i8254 and kicks off
: up to 20000 interrupts per second.

That sounds lame, even as a port....

Warner