Re: time and timers in FreeMWare

[Timothy J. Massey]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 06:34:24 PDT, Victor Tsou wrote:

>>Here are the reactions from someone into this stuff:
>>
>>  First off, typical desktop platforms (Intel and AMD) don't support,
>>  or don't initialize the APIC.
>       ...
>I don't understand why this matters; all it matters is that the host OS 
>supports it, correct? And, since you have Linux source, you can hack it 
>in.

Not exactly.  We're talking about what hardware mechanisms exist for
high-resolution timing.  No matter what the OS supports, if the hardware
doesn't support it, it's irrelevant.

Tim Massey