Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:38:51 +0200 (SAST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Relevance of 8254 calibration. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111270836510.14619-100000@netfinity.realnet.co.sz> In-Reply-To: <200111270134.fAR1YIM08540@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > Yes. Almost *ALL* PCs in the field aren't exactly 11931282Hz. > There's a lot of variance in this. PC have such crappy oscillators > that calibration is required. The "slight" variation can be as large > as +-300Hz, which is huge. :-(. > > But I'm a little biased here... > > Warner > hmm cross referencing here (forgive me ;) NetBSD nor Linux do this calibration and NetBSD runs on just about anything ;) Cheers, Zwane To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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