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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:37:48 +0200
From:      Tor Egge <Tor.Egge@idt.ntnu.no>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Interrupt lossage in FreeBSD-current. 
Message-ID:  <199610031437.QAA17866@pat.idt.unit.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Oct 1996 07:11:46 -0700"
References:  <199610031411.HAA12090@root.com>

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> >I no longer see this as a latency issue with regard to the RTC.
> >Something else was causing one RTC interrupt to be lost.
> 
>    I used to see a problem with using "DUMMY_NOPS" where the RTC interrupt
> acknowledge would be missed due to the time-delay constraints not being met.
> If you're using DUMMY_NOPS, then this could be your problem. If you're not,
> then the problem could be caused by your system eating the inb(0x84) without
> adding enough delay.

All NOPs disappeared in revision 1.7 of /sys/i386/include/asmacros.h.
(I'm running 2.2-current). 

- Tor Egge



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