Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:25:01 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [2.3.4x+] Benefits of lightweight RTC driver on Alpha |
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 09:10:07PM -0500, Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > I'm curious about the details of why the RTC has been changed to basically > disable a majority of the RTC code.
Because the RTC interrupt is special on alphas, and we _really_ do not wish to have it absconded by the rtc driver.
> I set my Multia to run at 100hz, just like i386, because it is just about > the slowest Alpha you can get and runs better interactively at this hz level > compared to the default of 1024hz.
You can change common_init_rtc in arch/alpha/kernel/time.c to achieve the same thing. Or nearly -- I think 128Hz not 100Hz is what's representable.
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