> Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: > >> Then why does Windows work with it? It has to > handle ticks too, and > >> I'm sure it does it in a similar fashion at the > lower level. Windows > >> is architecturally just as nasty, if not more than > Solaris, and is an > >> evolution of NT 3.51, so I believe with enough > manpower, it'd be > >> possible, albeit highly difficult. > >> > > > > "Given enough manpower" yes, it is possible, but it > will cost quite a > > bit of additional overhead to switch to a different > timer base. > > > > (Solaris derives time from TSC and needds time to > be the same across > > all CPUs for obvious reasons.) > > > > Casper > > > Who's to blame? I still say Sun is here, you guys > took forever to even > fully support x86. I am aware that since Solaris 2.6 > Sun had an x86 > port, that didn't make it at feature parity with > SPARC systems. Now, > outside of the politics and general usability scope, > what specific > source files would I go about looking at, so I can > figure this out a bit > more. Excuse me for seeming a bit naive, I do not > have experience with > the actual OpenSolaris source, I have not had time in > the past to look > at it. But I will give it a look now, it'd be in my > best interest to > make a rough estimate in how many man hours it'd need > to get done. I'm > prematurely guessing it'd take a full year, based on > your assertion that > overdependence of "cheap ticks" is pervasive through > the whole kernel > architecture. > > James > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
Lot of good information guys but I do not want my thread to turn into a bash session. I do appreciate all the information but please keep it out of the mud. Thanks mike This message posted from opensolaris.org
