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Date:      Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:47:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, adam@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC
Message-ID:  <199902042047.UAA16638@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199902042025.NAA06789@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Feb 4, 99 01:25:04 pm"

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> > 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?

It came up a few years ago and seems to have got buried in the pile.
At least now there is an XXX to remind of it and warn that apm is still
mandatory on some machines where not expected to be such.

Adam

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