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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 1998 15:20:34 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, jwd@unx.sas.com
Subject:   Re: 13 months of user time? 
Message-ID:  <1380.903705634@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 03:28:14 -0000." <199808210328.DAA07457@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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>With no APM in the kernel, the BIOS is not at liberty to play with the 
>clock.  (No connect, no enable.)
>
>You're welcome to check the archives, if you wish.

Yes, it is at liberty to play with it, but must do so in a 
"transparent" way.

>I also consider it a fault in our timing support if it can't handle 
>time moving forwards at a variable rate.  "APM" doesn't send the clock 
>backwards, so no time interval should ever be negative.
>
>Please take this issue seriously.  You can't just handwave and say 
>"it's all APM's fault".

Belive me, I'm taking this very seriously, but until I can make
it fail on one of my machines, I'll have a hard time fixing it.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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