Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:50:55 -0700 (PDT) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, nick.hibma@jrc.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout granularity (was: Re: Console driver...) Message-ID: <199807021551.IAA14638@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199807021409.QAA12590@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Jul 2, 98 04:09:36 pm"
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In reply to Luigi Rizzo who wrote:
> > Its right that you have to wait ~14ms, but the window of opportunity
> > (ie in the blanking period) is only about 330 usecs long, and you have
>
> ok, that (330us) was the thing i did not know and makes the idea not
> working.
Always study the problem at hand carefully :)
> > Besides rasing the clock that drastically will impact on our
> > slower customers, I'd say generally its a bad idea...
>
> up to 1000 perhaps wouldn't be that bad though.
And what would that buy us ?? not much I'm afraid
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So much code to hack -- so little time.
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