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From: "Valentin S. Chopov" <valsho@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: microuptime() still going backwards (long) 
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc: crossd@cs.rpi.edu, current@freebsd.org
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Mike,

It was just a suggestion. I'm sure in my case  the
problem was in the buggy BIOS (this is a old 486
notebook:).

Val

--- Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> This shouldn't have any effect at all; I think
> you're just waving 
> chickens here.  If you can work out what is actually
> happening here it'd 
> be quite useful though - PNPBIOS may result in some
> differences in 
> resource allocation which might be salient.
> 
> > Try w/o PNPBIOS option. I  had the similar
> problem,
> > and that fixed it.
> > 
> > Val
> > 
> > -------------------------
> > I followed the suggestions from people earlier
> today. 
> > That is to
> > say that I have upgraded my BIOS to 1012, disabled
> APM
> > in the BIOS,
> > and removed 'device apm' from the  kernel config,
> > however I still
> > receive lines like:
> > 
> > calcru: negative time of 20585525 usec for pid 477
> > (cvsup)
> > 
> > and also lines about microuptime() being negative
> (I
> > think these are
> > related :)
> > 
> > Below is a dmesg and my kernel config.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
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