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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:04:55 +0000
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Kyle Butt <kylebutt@myrealbox.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Superfast clock on current.
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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.

(I still have the machine, but it is running 4.5 now).

	David.

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