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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r247792 - head/sys/dev/syscons
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 04:55:49PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote:
> On 04.03.2013 16:42, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:00:59PM +0000, Davide Italiano wrote:
...
> >>   - Reduce syscons "refresh" rate to 1-2Hz when console is in graphics mode
> >>   and there is nothing to do except some polling for keyboard.  Text mode
> > 
> > just to understand, how does this 1-2Hz affect the respose to keypresses ?
> > does it mean it takes 0.5..1s to see the keypress ?
> 
> No, it is a polling for keyboard presence, and its rate already limited
> to 1Hz by comparing kbd_time_stamp to time_uptime there.

perfect, thanks for the clarification

cheers
luigi