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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:40 pm, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Brian Astill wrote:
> > So there are.  However it concerns me that even at 5.2.1 this issue
> > isn't fixed.
> > I know the kernels are different, but Linux handles APM and
> > Athlon/VIA chipsets without a problem.  Why can't FBSD?
>
> Because VIA doesn't publish documentaion, and source is not
> documentation.

I don't quite understand this response.  Are you saying that the Linux 
kernel team are somehow privileged cpw FBSD, so that they can avoid 
that microuptime issue and FBSD can't?  I would have thought that the 
source cpw documentation for VIA chipsets would have been the same for 
all.

-- 
Regards,
Brian
sos-sa.org.au