From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 10 9:53:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402BF37B424 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:53:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f4AGqxG86291; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:52:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:52:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Jacob Subject: RE: quite amusing, really.... Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10-May-01 Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Well, I guess nobody has really cared that alpha 8200s haven't worked since > last September..... :-).... > > The following sys/alpha/clock.c revision is the culprit. > > The problem here, which, btw, the revision comments makes no mention of, is > that there was a direct insertion if i8254 timer code into the alpha clock > functions. Uh, the Alpha 8X00 doesn't *have* an i8254, and might not even > have > an EISA bus at all. This insertion is for clock calibration- not any of what > the comments refer to. > > Quite hilarious, really. This is from the original alpha SMP code. Unfortunately, my attempts to get the SMPng commit split up into smaller commits with better descriptions were not succesful. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message