The following reply was made to PR port-i386/36839; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kardel@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: port-i386/36839: x86/x86/tsc.c should be switched to using MIkern_cctr.c
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:48:00 +0900

 kardel@NetBSD.org wrote:
 
 >  The reason for not having switched yet is, that I saw backward time 
 >  steps when
 >  running the regress/sys/kern/time test.
 
 Doesn't it happen with -current (not split) tsc.c?
 i.e. is the problem caused by this patch?
 
 There is also a PR kern/14058 which says
 "time-of-day goes backward" even on 3.1_RC2.
 (when timecounter(9) is not integrated yet?)
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui