Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:52:04 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: quite amusing, really.... Message-ID: <XFMail.010510095204.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105092204330.16771-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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
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