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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:02:14 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: pca driver being retired. 
Message-ID:  <2087.1060858934@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:17:50 BST." <200308141017.h7EAHoOI089193@grimreaper.grondar.org> 

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In message <200308141017.h7EAHoOI089193@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr
ites:

>Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this
>driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into
>a port or both?

The main problem is the code which hi-jacks the i8254 and kicks off
up to 20000 interrupts per second.

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