From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 4 12:25:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15660 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15654; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA01202; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:25:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA06789; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:25:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:25:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199902042025.NAA06789@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adam David Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), adam@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC In-Reply-To: <199902042023.UAA16145@veda.is> References: <199902041832.LAA05994@mt.sri.com> <199902042023.UAA16145@veda.is> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > Modified files: > > > sys/i386/conf GENERIC > > > Log: > > > remind that apm is required in order for timekeeping to work > > > > Huh? > > Including apm in the kernel build fixes the problem where on (some?) Pentium > class CPUs the timekeeping gets hosed because there is something weird > happening with the TSC that makes it unusable for keeping time. Then something is hosed up in the APM/timekeeping code, since this *shouldn't* make a difference. Is PHK aware of this? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message