Re: hardclock() sources

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 10:16:26 +0000
In message <20090506101301.GA17874_at_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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Received on Wed May 06 2009 - 08:16:28 UTC

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