Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 00:40:48 -0600 From: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interrupts and such Message-ID: <199604060640.AAA03986@compound>
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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:09:59 -0700 > This seems excessive ... > So what is rtc0 and why is it acting like a clock interrupt? Because it is a clock interrupt. rtc0 is 'sufficiently' faster than clk0 so that statistics gathering is significantly better and more accurate. This does not answer the question, however; it merely mutates it: Why retain clk0? It *does* seem a bit excessive.
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