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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:58:37 -0400
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current)
Subject:   clock running faster?
Message-ID:  <9510191358.AA06899@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510191109.NAA27005@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
References:  <199510191109.NAA27005@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>

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<<On Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:09:36 +0200 (SAT), John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> said:

> 30 second in an hour. Previously the clock was very stable. I have even
> rebooted and it still does it.

> Has anybody seen something like this? I see there were changes made to
> i386/isa/clock.c and kern/kern_clock.c.

Does the startup code correctly diagnose your CPU as a 90-MHz model?

If not, then you can #ifdef out the code in clock.c that looks like
this:

        unsigned long long count;

        __asm __volatile(".byte 0x0f, 0x30" : : "A"(0LL), "c" (0x10));
        DELAY(1000000);
        __asm __volatile(".byte 0xf,0x31" : "=A" (count));
        /*
         * XX lose if the clock rate is not nearly a multiple of 1000000.
         */
        pentium_mhz = (count + 500000) / 1000000;

And you might check to see why the DELAY macro isn't delaying for the
correct length of time (should be one second).

-GAWollman

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