From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 17 07:10:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA29781 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29776 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CX63802-A.dt1.sdca.home.com ([24.0.130.58]) by ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA20392 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:10:36 -0700 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 07:10:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Marty Gordon X-Sender: mlghome@CX63802-A.dt1.sdca.home.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Use of -v boot option and 'USE_I586_CLK', etc. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been curious about those 'USE_xxx_CLK' options in LINT together with the -v boot option. Is this 'a good thing to do' when switching to a new MB or CPU? Does it allow some timing code to be adjusted, set up or stored someplace? My new MB/CPU is clocked at 266 MHz and the timing loop comes in at about 262 or so for the CPU. Is this stuff of any practical (read: good) use? Thanks, Marty