On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > > You can also pretty trivially keep track of an error term so that the
> > > > clock is right on average:
> > >
> > > True, but I don't want 'right on average'. I want 'not screwed with at all'.
> > > Shifti
Hi!
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > > You can also pretty trivially keep track of an error term so that the
> > > clock is right on average:
> >
> > True, but I don't want 'right on average'. I want 'not screwed with at all'.
> > Shifting the timer tick onto the RTC will give me that.
> >
>
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > You can also pretty trivially keep track of an error term so that the
> > clock is right on average:
>
> True, but I don't want 'right on average'. I want 'not screwed with at all'.
> Shifting the timer tick onto the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> You can also pretty trivially keep track of an error term so that the
> clock is right on average:
True, but I don't want 'right on average'. I want 'not screwed with at all'.
Shifting the timer tick onto the RTC will give me that.
Even if we _do_ get the maths righ
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> See arch/i386/kernel/time.c:
>
> /* This function must be called with interrupts disabled
> * It was inspired by Steve McCanne's microtime-i386 for BSD. -- jrs
> *
> * However, the pc-audio speaker driver changes the divisor so that
> * it get
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Apparently Linus doesn't like the way it handles interrupts or
> something, and is therefore 'wrong.' ::shrug:: As long as it's
> available though, I'll use it ;p
It's not just 'wrong'. It's 'sick'. But it works. The correct fix is to
shift the system timer onto the RT
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>> Is there a major compelling reason that this patch isn't included
>> in the standard kernel tree?
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> Is there a major compelling reason that this patch isn't included
> in the standard kernel tree?
>
>
> --
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> Computer Consultant - Capslock Consul
> >Thanks to Erik Inge Bols=F8 for porting it to 2.3.45, this saving me m=
> ost of=20
> >the work.
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> Is there a major compelling reason that this patch isn't included
> in the standard kernel tree?
It goes hacking around with the clock
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Is there a major compelling reason that this patch isn't included
> in the standard kernel tree?
It does _evil_ things with the timers. If we shift the system timer tick
onto the RTC, it won't be so evil, and I'd consider trying to submit it
for 2.5.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:07:13 +0100
>From: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: PC speaker driver patch for 2.4.0-test10-
ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/people/dwmw2/pcsp/patch-pcsp-soundcore-2.4.0-test10-pre3
Thanks to Erik Inge Bolsø for porting it to 2.3.45, this saving me most of
the work.
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