From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 28 23: 1:36 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles540.castles.com [208.214.165.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2092B14E52; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01064; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907290556.WAA01064@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Bruce Evans Cc: mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/apm apm.c apm_setup.s apm_setup.h src/sys/i386/isa clock.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:00:59 +1000." <199907290500.PAA31254@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:56:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > >> I'd rather we stop using if it looks manipulated. I have looked at various > >> ways to improve the calibration of the TSC by spending longer time doing it, > >> this is however not enough to detect a manipulated TSC because the timeouts > >> in the bios may be half and whole hours. > > > >Basically, the BIOS' behaviour has to be considered to be > >nondeterministic. > > That's just one reason why using the BIOS shouldn't be standard. Uh, no, this has nothing to do with "using" the BIOS. No word games, please. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message