From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 31 23: 2:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu (kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu [129.123.231.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B121B37B41F for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 23:02:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu (271d9de03ae98eb8cf1bd2c5af31a8b9@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g319NGkc022141; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 02:23:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from kylebutt@myrealbox.com) Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 02:23:16 -0700 Message-ID: <87bsd3kc1n.wl@kylebutt.dorms.usu.edu> From: Kyle Butt To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: David Malone , Kyle Butt , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Superfast clock on current. In-Reply-To: <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk> <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.8.1 (Something) SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.3 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Unebigory=F2mae?=) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.1 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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