David O'Brien wrote: >On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:34:57PM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > >>I don't have the message at hand. I just had time to write the mail, but I >>don't have my laptop with me to reproduce the message. But it's easy to >>reproduce, just take a PC which is able to make use of powerd and switch to >>using TSC as the timecounter. >> >> > >What is the motivation to use the TSC as a timecounter? > > > TSC is faster than any others, on many systems, so-called ACPI-fast timer is really a slow chip, at least far slower than reading from RAM, manufactories just lie on this. Regards, David XuReceived on Sun Oct 30 2005 - 05:39:37 UTC
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