Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:24:04 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: rdtsc to mili secs? |
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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.
Pavel
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