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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To: Davide Italiano <davide@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r247792 - head/sys/dev/syscons
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:00:59PM +0000, Davide Italiano wrote:
> Author: davide
> Date: Mon Mar  4 14:00:58 2013
> New Revision: 247792
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/247792
> 
> Log:
>   MFcalloutng (r244249, r244306 by mav):
>   - Switch syscons from timeout() to callout_reset_flags() and specify that
>   precision is not important there -- anything from 20 to 30Hz will be fine.
>   - Reduce syscons "refresh" rate to 1-2Hz when console is in graphics mode
>   and there is nothing to do except some polling for keyboard.  Text mode

just to understand, how does this 1-2Hz affect the respose to keypresses ?
does it mean it takes 0.5..1s to see the keypress ?

cheers
luigi