Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:53:36 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Mike Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emulators/rtc with other apps other than Linux apps? Message-ID: <20040227114628.N724@odysseus.silby.com>
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Hi Mike! (Hm, that sounds odd...) The rtc port could work fine with native FreeBSD programs, I have been running most of my tests with natively compiled test tools. If your kern.hz is high enough, then the rtc driver should provide the best accuracy possible. If the application uses rtc properly, then I believe that yes, it will perform better than using usleep. However, I have not had a chance to look at the mplayer source code to see if this is the case. Also, we do not implement the full set of features that linux's rtc driver has yet, so if mplayer is depending on those features it may not be working correctly. Finally, the rtc driver should work fine on 5.2 - that's the platform I'm developing it on! However, note that some driver changes happened in the last week, and that I have not updated the port to compensate yet, so if you're running a really recent -current that there may be some breakage. I'll give mplayer a shot when and if I get some time. Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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