Another updated RTC driver for vmware users to try

[Mike Silbersack]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Marco Trentini wrote:

> Great work!

Thanks, I have gone ahead and committed this edition of the driver to the
ports tree.

> What value should have the kernel HZ option?
> About 1000? Is 1300 proper?

Good question, I'm not exactly sure.  Higher should be better, but as far
as I can tell, the rtc driver is really not the limiting factor in VMWare
performance anymore.  So, I think 1000 HZ should be sufficient for normal
operation.  The major exception to this would be in situations where the
virtual machine uses a large hz setting that approaches your system's hz
setting.

I may take that hz warning out in the next version, I'm still thinking
about it.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack