Re: time and timers in FreeMWare

[Timothy J. Massey]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:13:00 +0200, Ramon van Handel wrote:

>> 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...
>
>On pentium, the LOCAL APIC is part of the processor.
>On 486, it is a separate chip.
>The I/O APIC is always in the chipset, but it's the local
>APIC that has the timers.

Thank you for clearing that up.

Tim Massey