Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:24:18 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:32 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/13/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So we should aim for a HZ value that makes it easy to convert to and from > > > the standard user-space interface formats. 100Hz, 250Hz and 1000Hz are all > > > good values for that reason. 864 is not. > > > > How about 500? This might be good enough to solve the MIDI problem. > > > > I would expect number of laptop users significatly outnumber ones > driving MIDI so as a default entry 250 makes more sense IMHO. >
Alan tested it and said that 250HZ does not save much power anyway.
Lee
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