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Date:      Wed, 06 May 2009 10:16:26 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardclock() sources 
Message-ID:  <6172.1241604986@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 May 2009 20:13:02 %2B1000." <20090506101301.GA17874@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> 

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In message <20090506101301.GA17874@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy write
s:

>A better solution would seem to be to use a HPET periodic timer.

Part of the problem is discovering the timers location early enough.

We have long (10 years) talked about doing (at least) two scans of
the busses:

First scan to allocate missing resources
Second scan to get "important" hardware (console, timers)
Third scan to find the rest.

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