Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 02:23:16 -0700 From: Kyle Butt <kylebutt@myrealbox.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Kyle Butt <kylebutt@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Superfast clock on current. Message-ID: <87bsd3kc1n.wl@kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu> In-Reply-To: <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk> <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:02:47 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >In message <20020326100455.GA37656@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes: > >>On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:59:29AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>> This is an interesting machine: A K6 wiht ACPI, havn't seen that > >>> before. > >> > >>I had one of these machines and concluded that the ACPI time counter > >>was busted. I dunno if it is possible to sanity check the time > >>counter before using it? I just switched to using the TSC early in > >>boot and forgot about it. > > > >That is what I try to do, and I recently rewrote the code in current > >for that exact reason, so I'm very interested in seeing the diagnostic > >output (boot -v) from a -current kernel on these motherboards. > > I've stared at the data file and I'll be damned if I can find anything > which would case the clock to double its speed :-( Perhaps something else is causing the clock to run twice as fast? Maybe two things that are working properly are both incrementing the clock? > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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