Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:56:00 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: kgdb / remote gdb of the kernel? Message-ID: <199603261756.SAA14992@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603260922.UAA00773@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 26, 96 08:22:56 pm
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > - associated clocks. The i586 cycle counter isn't affected by interrupts > being enabled, so it may get way ahead of the (slow) current time. Why is this abuse of the i586 cycle counter still being used as a clock replacement? I thought it was pretty clear after David's visit at Intel that we should no longer use it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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