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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 09:41:13 -0700
From:      Mark Peek <mark@peek.org>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c
Message-ID:  <p05111a06b93a5849b54e@[10.1.1.73]>
In-Reply-To: <20020622093250.C92778@iguana.icir.org>
References:  <200206221630.g5MGUJH76448@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020622093250.C92778@iguana.icir.org>

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At 9:32 AM -0700 6/22/02, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Mark Peek wrote:
>>  mp          2002/06/22 09:30:19 PDT
>>
>>    Modified files:
>>      sys/i386/isa         clock.c
>>    Log:
>>    Clock frequencies reported by sysctl should be unsigned values. Discovered
>>    when machdep.tsc_freq returned a negative number on a 2.2GHz Xeon.
>
>so we have a couple of years before hitting another barrier with 4GHz
>boxes...

Shhh, don't mention this on the public lists. Once the press hears 
about a 4GHz issue it will be Y2K all over again. :-)

But yes, we realized this as well when we made the patch.

Mark

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