Re: time and timers in FreeMWare

[Amy Lear ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]

On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:42:06PM -0400, Timothy J. Massey wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:12:03 +0200, Ramon van Handel wrote:
> 
> >The problem is that we still don't know whether this timer
> >is present on AMD.  I fear that it may not be.
> 
> I could be wrong (it wouldn't be the first time), but isn't the APIC part of
> the chipset?  If so, the AMD would have the same facilities as the Pentium: 
> they use the same chipsets...
> 
> Tim Massey

My understanding is that the APIC is the /local/ timer, which is part of the
CPU itself. The distinction being made for the case of SMP..

Of course, I could quite possibly be wrong as well.
=)