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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 1997 03:10:43 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c 
Message-ID:  <199703041110.DAA13122@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:04:25 %2B1100." <199703041104.WAA05969@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>>>Since there is a pause while the clocks are calibrated, perhaps a
>>>simple `Calibrating clocks\n' style message for the nonverbose case?
>>>Would that keep most/all people happy?
>>
>>   The pause isn't long enough to matter. No message should be emitted.
>
>Someone reported a 15 (?) minute pause with buggy hardware.  The timeout
>is too generous, but I'm not sure how much it can be reduced by without
>breaking the calibration on slow machines.  I reduced it by a factor of
>100 locally.

   Like I said, put it behind bootverbose. If people's machines hang, then
they can try again with bootverbose to see what's happening.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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