Re: Using %stick where available

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Nov 7, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> So, I applied the patches to NetBSD 6 source, and compiled up my  
> specific
> kernel for the Sun Fire v240 and a GENERIC.UP for the Sun Netra T1  
> model 200,
> and booted them. Both work, and the good timekeeping continues for  
> the v240.

Nice :)

> One thing I noticed that differs on the Netra between patch one and  
> two: when
> booting the first set of patches (which crashed late in the process  
> - probably
> at/near where timecounter selection is reported) is that during CPU  
> probe
> (near the top), the first set of patches caused the kernel to emit  
> this:
>
> cpu0: system tick frequency 11 MHz
>
> So there's ... something there that they found.

The UltraSPARC-IIe has the 2nd timer, but it's implemented differently  
than on UltraSPARC-III ( see Takeshi Nakayama's mail ). My patch only  
supports it on UltraSPARC-III for now ( I don't have any IIe-style  
hardware so someone else will have to do that )

have fun
Michael

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