Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:20:34 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com Subject: Re: 13 months of user time? Message-ID: <1380.903705634@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 03:28:14 -0000." <199808210328.DAA07457@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>With no APM in the kernel, the BIOS is not at liberty to play with the >clock. (No connect, no enable.) > >You're welcome to check the archives, if you wish. Yes, it is at liberty to play with it, but must do so in a "transparent" way. >I also consider it a fault in our timing support if it can't handle >time moving forwards at a variable rate. "APM" doesn't send the clock >backwards, so no time interval should ever be negative. > >Please take this issue seriously. You can't just handwave and say >"it's all APM's fault". Belive me, I'm taking this very seriously, but until I can make it fail on one of my machines, I'll have a hard time fixing it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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