Subject: Re: microtime(9) slow on i386?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
From: Andreas Persson <pap.is@home.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/24/2001 21:47:43
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:15:28PM -0400, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
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>We can check the cycle timer, but the problem there is that we can
>easily lose on a machine with a variable rate clock.
Are there any cpus which do this without OS support (with ACPI)?
You would need to support ACPI/APM anyway, to compensate for the various
sleep modes.

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