From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 26 11:22:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA09462 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:22:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA09446 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 11:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA26972 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 21:21:30 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA23406 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:21:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA14992 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:56:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603261756.SAA14992@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: kgdb / remote gdb of the kernel? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:56:00 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603260922.UAA00773@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 26, 96 08:22:56 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)