Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 05:41:13 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, steve2@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Colorado Jumbo 250MB ft, and FreeBSD 2.0R Message-ID: <199504051941.FAA28922@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>That DELAY is hardware dependent is an inevitable side effect of >the fact that it is not implemented using real timer code. It is implemented using real timer code. Read the code before commenting. >I won't argue the demerits of this (again... this time), but the >hardware independence requirement of such an implementation is a >calibration phase for the delay loop (see the keyboard code in "The >Undocumented PC" and the Linux DELAY code). The Linux DELAY code is better calibrated for short delays (unless the machine speed is changed after calibration) but inaccurate for long delays. Bruce
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