weird fxp / timecounter interaction in top-of-tree

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Apr 6 11:25:57 PDT 2003


In message <xzpel4fmqu9.fsf at flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8
rgrav?= writes:

>I've modified the piix driver to only initialize the timecounter once,

This is correct.

>and tc_init() to use the *first* timecounter it runs across (on i386,
>this is generally the i8254), leaving the admin to pick another one if
>the default does not suit her.  See the attached patch.

This is wrong.  Please do not commit it.

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