Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:10:38 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] Relevance of 8254 calibration. Message-ID: <200111270710.fAR7AcM10976@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:11:38 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111270906370.28768-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111270906370.28768-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111270906370.28768-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> Zwane Mwaikambo writes: : When you say system time do you mean "hardware" time? or the running : kernel's time? Output of date command, which is kept by the kernel. : The hardware time doesn't work anyway since the box's RTC : is stuck somewhere in 2057 but the hardware timer interrupt seems to be : ticking at the right pace so i'm sure the kernel time does stay consistent : (with normal drift). I had problems regarding timestamps on files in Linux : (annoying because configure scripts would think the files have changed : whilst it was running and hence an endless loop) but i don't seem to have : the same problem in FreeBSD. Cool. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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