Subject: Re: Clock drift on Miatas
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/28/2000 12:23:07
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> writes:
> > It's really 600 rather than 588. I haven't found the appropriate
> > NetBSD timekeeping code yet but Linux believed the SRM and the result
> > was too far off for the PLL to lock up. So it would jump by a couple
> > of seconds every 15 minutes or so.
>
> NetBSD doesn't use this, I'm pretty sure. It just knows that the clock
> interrupts 1024 times a second and goes from there.
it does, in delay(), but that shouldn't cause significant problems.
(we don't in microtime(), though perhaps we should in at least
single-CPU systems. We should on MP systems, too, if somebody can
figure out the right way to make sure that the CC's on the different
processors are consistent.)
cgd
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