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Date:      Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:15:59 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r220459 - head/sys/x86/isa
Message-ID:  <201104111216.04972.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110409075110.L834@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <201104081954.p38JsTED090284@svn.freebsd.org> <20110409075110.L834@besplex.bde.org>

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On Friday 08 April 2011 06:29 pm, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > Log:
> >  Refactor DELAYDEBUG as it is only useful for correcting i8254
> > frequency.
>
> Er, DELAYDEBUG has nothing to do with the i8254 except that the
> non-i8254 case was broken (mostly in unreachable code, and missing
> instrumentation corresponding to the getit_calls counter).  Now it
> is more broken -- e.g., configuring DELAYDEBUG now prevents the
> non-i8254 timers from even being compiled.

Non-i8254 case was broken far too long and nobody cared to fix it.  
So, I concluded it isn't "useful".  If you need to fix it, please 
feel free. :-)

Jung-uk Kim



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