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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: timeout granularity (was: Re: Console driver...)
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> Its right that you have to wait ~14ms, but the window of opportunity
> (ie in the blanking period) is only about 330 usecs long, and you have

ok, that (330us) was the thing i did not know and makes the idea not
working.

> Besides rasing the clock that drastically will impact on our
> slower customers, I'd say generally its a bad idea...

up to 1000 perhaps wouldn't be that bad though.

	luigi


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