Re: git: 00d061855deb - main - Garbage-collect ACPI-safe timer and friends

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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:38:10 UTC

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Colin Percival writes:

> commit 00d061855deb93df5d709c8a794985ebb55012f8
>
>     Garbage-collect ACPI-safe timer and friends
>     
>     In 2001 when the ACPI timer was introduced, it included code to check
>     for a bug present in some Pentium II and Pentium III chipsets; 

Boy, does that bring back memories...

Apologies for not taking this out behind the barn myself, I had totally
forgotten about it.

Poul-Henning

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