In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes:
>The >piix timecounter has a lower frequency than the TSC, but for some >reason we mask it to 24 bits (16M cycles @ 3.5+ MHz = 4+ seconds). We do this because the spec defines it as either 32 or 24 bit and some 24 bit implementations claim to have 32 bits. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
