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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