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SubjectRe: [2.3.4x+] Benefits of lightweight RTC driver on Alpha
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.


r~

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