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To: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: weird fxp / timecounter interaction in top-of-tree
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"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> Defining "best" is at best hard, so I have resorted to the simple
> technique we use now:  Don't call tc_init on a timecounter unless
> you want to use it.

Huh?  I added a Debugger() call to tc_init(), and can assure you that
it gets called for every timecounter in the system (in my case i8254,
PIIX, TSC and ACPI, not necessarily in that order).

DES
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