Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 22:46:23 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: rdtsc to mili secs? |
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On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > Anyway, this should be solvable by checking for clock change in the > > > > timer interrupt. This way we should be able to detect when the clock > > > > went weird with a 10 ms accuracy. And compensate for that. It should be > > > > possible to keep a 'reasonable' clock running even through the clock > > > > changes, where reasonable means constantly growing and as close to real > > > > time as 10 ms difference max. > > > > > > > > Yes, this is not perfect, but still keep every program quite happy and > > > > running. > > > > > > No. Udelay has just gone wrong and your old ISA xxx card just crashed > > > whole system. Oops. > > > > Yes. But can you do any better than that? Anyway, I wouldn't expect to > > be able to put my old ISA cards into a recent notebook which fiddles > > with the CPU speed (or STPCLK ratio). > > PCMCIA is just that: putting old ISA crap into modern hardware. Sorry.
Not really, fortunately. There are ISA-sytle NE2000's on PCMCIA, but 1) You know that you have a card there via the PCMCIA services and 2) They're not the old crappy NE2000's that'd die on a random read anyway.
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