Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Tue, 17 May 2005 10:05:08 +0200 | Subject | Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem |
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On 16 May 2005 at 12:29, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> said: > > Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance > Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is > Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC? > > Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code?
AFAIR the design goal was not to make a new time implementation, but to make a more precise one ;-)
Regards, Ulrich
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