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Subject: Re: timeout granularity (was: Re: Console driver...)
In-Reply-To: <199807021409.QAA12590@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jul 2, 98 04:09:36 pm"
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> > 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.

Always study the problem at hand carefully :)

> > 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.

And what would that buy us ?? not much I'm afraid

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               So much code to hack -- so little time.

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