Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:58:45 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: kgdb / remote gdb of the kernel? Message-ID: <199603261958.LAA09163@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:56:00 %2B0100." <199603261756.SAA14992@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>As Bruce Evans wrote: > >> - associated clocks. The i586 cycle counter isn't affected by interrupts >> being enabled, so it may get way ahead of the (slow) current time. > >Why is this abuse of the i586 cycle counter still being used as a >clock replacement? I thought it was pretty clear after David's visit >at Intel that we should no longer use it. It was certainly clear to me. It's fundamentally incompatible with APM. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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