Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:45:45 -0400 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vasily <admin@intaer.ru> Subject: Re: microuptime() ... Message-ID: <200408180845.45217.bastill@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040817104030.A40914@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0402291659180.50107-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <200408171010.43804.bastill@adam.com.au> <20040817104030.A40914@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:40 pm, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Brian Astill wrote: > > So there are. However it concerns me that even at 5.2.1 this issue > > isn't fixed. > > I know the kernels are different, but Linux handles APM and > > Athlon/VIA chipsets without a problem. Why can't FBSD? > > Because VIA doesn't publish documentaion, and source is not > documentation. I don't quite understand this response. Are you saying that the Linux kernel team are somehow privileged cpw FBSD, so that they can avoid that microuptime issue and FBSD can't? I would have thought that the source cpw documentation for VIA chipsets would have been the same for all. -- Regards, Brian sos-sa.org.au
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