Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: VIA 686 timer bugfix incomplete | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:30:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Me thinks the real solution is the ACPI pm timer. 3 times the > resolution of the PIT and you can not stop it. The high-res-timers > patch will allow you to use this as the time keeper and just use the PIT > to generate interrupts.
For awkward boxes you can use the PIT, for good boxes we can use rdtsc or eventually the ACPI timers when running with ACPI - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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