svn commit: r274739 - head/sys/mips/conf

Mark R V Murray mark at grondar.org
Mon Nov 24 19:15:27 UTC 2014


> On 24 Nov 2014, at 15:01, Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> The logging change was pretty simple:
> 
> Index: kern/subr_bus.c

Thanks.

> The low number of devices is pretty typical. Sometimes there'll be
> another uart.  Sometimes an i2c eeprom.

OK - a good example of a low-entropy system then.

> I have no idea what's up with the first 3 unchanging numbers, but I
> suspect a big part of the explanation for the other numbers is the 32KHz
> clock it's getting the numbers from.  There used to be a clock running
> at about 2.8MHz, but the source code for that driver seems to have
> disappeared from FreeBSD at some point between 8.x and -current.

What really bothers me is that these should be the difference between 2 essentially similar numbers; times not all that far apart, yet some of the numbers are truly massive.

I don’t know how that could be the case. Its *WEIRD*. :-(

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Mark R V Murray



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