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Date:      Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:38:10 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: 00d061855deb - main - Garbage-collect ACPI-safe timer and friends
Message-ID:  <202406210738.45L7cA2e007446@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <202406210719.45L7JU1H020535@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202406210719.45L7JU1H020535@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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Colin Percival writes:

> commit 00d061855deb93df5d709c8a794985ebb55012f8
>
>     Garbage-collect ACPI-safe timer and friends
>     
>     In 2001 when the ACPI timer was introduced, it included code to check
>     for a bug present in some Pentium II and Pentium III chipsets; 

Boy, does that bring back memories...

Apologies for not taking this out behind the barn myself, I had totally
forgotten about it.

Poul-Henning

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