Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:00:59 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: mike@smith.net.au, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/apm apm.c apm_setup.s apm_setup.h src/sys/i386/isa clock.c Message-ID: <199907290500.PAA31254@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> I'd rather we stop using if it looks manipulated. I have looked at various >> ways to improve the calibration of the TSC by spending longer time doing it, >> this is however not enough to detect a manipulated TSC because the timeouts >> in the bios may be half and whole hours. > >Basically, the BIOS' behaviour has to be considered to be >nondeterministic. That's just one reason why using the BIOS shouldn't be standard. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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