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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:43:04 -0500
From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: ACPI timecounter help needed!
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Machines with ACPI timecounters will now print 10 lines at boot when
> the timer is tested.

You should mention that this requires bootverbose.

> If you are lucky you will see ten times something like:
> 	ACPI timer looks GOOD min = 3, max = 3, width = 1
> That means that you have well implemented ACPI timer.
> 
> If you are unlucky, one, several or all 10 lines will be marked as
> "BAD".
> 
> Please send me an email with these 10 lines and the output of
> "pciconf -l -v" for your machine.  I'm am interested in reports
> both from good and bad machines.

I will send you mine as soon as I can figure out how to extract
the information usefully as the machine behaves VERY badly with
the ACPI timecounter -- the only way I can see output on the
syscons console is if I break into DDB repeatedly.

-- 
wca

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