Clock running fast

Anthony Atkielski atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr
Thu May 5 19:20:30 PDT 2005


Ted Mittelstaedt writes:

> It is probably a tossup between the i8254 driver taking cycles to run
> and an internal kernel counter based off the CPU clock taking cycles to
> run.

I was talking about SMM, which steals cycles invisibly and also allows
mystery software to run in the BIOS.

-- 
Anthony




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