Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:39:43 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] sort out CLOCK_TICK_RATE usage [1/3] |
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>>>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:57:05 +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de> said:
Thorsten> Introducing PIC_TIC_RATE.
What's this meant for? At least for IA-64, there is zero guarantee that there will be a timer ticking at this rate. There are some machines where this is the case (the ones using Intel chipsets, I believe), but it isn't true for most machines with non-Intel chipsets (which are common).
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