Re: PSA: Clock drift and pkgin

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 06:25:29PM +0000, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> You can only do tickless if you can track how much time is elapsing when no ticks fire, or none are pending.
> I don't see how to do that without a high-res timer like a CPU cycle counter, or I/O bus cycle counter,
> or what-have-you. Gong fully tickless would therefore end support for machines without such a timer.
> Is NetBSD ready to do that?  

Kernels on that machines just would not run fully tickless.

Martin