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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:58:45 -0800
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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