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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:27:11 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TSC instead of ACPI: powerd doesn't work anymore (to be expected?)
Message-ID:  <20051031232711.GD1367@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <81484.1130756628@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20051031102424.V11619@fledge.watson.org> <81484.1130756628@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 12:03:48PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Poul-Henning Kamp, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Another thing to remember is that the TSC and ACPI hardware is not
> the only thing we have to deal with:  Any solution we implement
> needs to also work on other architectures, including i486 with only
> i8254 timecounters etc.

Boy, I'm just becoming the voice of not-so-new hardware, aren't I?  ;)

My PPro uses the i8254.  So does my P133 laptop.  I presume most other
Pentium-era machines, and probably PII's, do as well.  When DID ACPI
become the common case?


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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