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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 21:58:49 +0200
From:      phk@dk.tfs.com
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freefall.freebsd.org>, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 swtch.s 
Message-ID:  <684.861047929@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:31:56 MDT." <199704141831.MAA24666@rocky.mt.sri.com> 

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In message <199704141831.MAA24666@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes:
>>   Modified:    sys/i386/i386  swtch.s
>>   Log:
>>   Forget all about APM.   Instead of "hlt" call through a vector which
>>   APM can then fiddle with.  Default for the vector is to "htl; ret"
>
>I *like* this.  Now, do you want to add code to the apm assembly to futz
>with the hlt_vector. :)

I'm still tuning my algorithms.  Havn't found a good one yet :-(

For slowing the CPU, you need to know how much you slow it to avoid
positive feedback loops.


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