Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 00:03:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clock code patch sought. Message-ID: <199905040503.AAA17090@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990503204501.9332F-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "May 3, 1999 8:46:29 pm"
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> > > > There was a patch floating around that re-read the clock registers several > > > times for broken hardware, to get rid of the problems of user time going > > > backwards due to misreads. > > > > > > I have been unable to find exact references in the archives.. > > > does anyone remember the patches in question? > > > > > > It was within the last year.. > > > > > > julian > > > > > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=6630 > > > > Take a look. > > > > I had to modify it to do 4 reads, instead of 2 though. > > > > like this? > retrieving revision 1.129 > diff -u -r1.129 clock.c > --- clock.c 1998/12/14 13:30:29 1.129 > +++ clock.c 1999/05/04 03:44:52 Yep, that's it. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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