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Date:      Sat, 30 Mar 2002 11:02:47 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, Kyle Butt <kylebutt@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Superfast clock on current. 
Message-ID:  <31213.1017482567@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 15:29:17 %2B0100." <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk> 

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In message <1228.1017152957@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>In message <20020326100455.GA37656@walton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone writes:
>>On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:59:29AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>> This is an interesting machine: A K6 wiht ACPI, havn't seen that
>>> before.
>>
>>I had one of these machines and concluded that the ACPI time counter
>>was busted. I dunno if it is possible to sanity check the time
>>counter before using it? I just switched to using the TSC early in
>>boot and forgot about it.
>
>That is what I try to do, and I recently rewrote the code in current
>for that exact reason, so I'm very interested in seeing the diagnostic
>output (boot -v) from a -current kernel on these motherboards.

I've stared at the data file and I'll be damned if I can find anything
which would case the clock to double its speed :-(

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