Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 03:10:43 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa clock.c Message-ID: <199703041110.DAA13122@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:04:25 %2B1100." <199703041104.WAA05969@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>>Since there is a pause while the clocks are calibrated, perhaps a >>>simple `Calibrating clocks\n' style message for the nonverbose case? >>>Would that keep most/all people happy? >> >> The pause isn't long enough to matter. No message should be emitted. > >Someone reported a 15 (?) minute pause with buggy hardware. The timeout >is too generous, but I'm not sure how much it can be reduced by without >breaking the calibration on slow machines. I reduced it by a factor of >100 locally. Like I said, put it behind bootverbose. If people's machines hang, then they can try again with bootverbose to see what's happening. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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