Re: Question about RTC interrupts on i386

2000-12-15 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm not sure there's any particular advantage to the TOD clock on IRQ 8. It means that IRQ0 is free to be used for the PC speaker driver :) -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Question about RTC interrupts on i386

2000-12-15 Thread richardj_moore
BM UK Ltd, MP135 Galileo Centre, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK Lee Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 15/12/2000 04:04:04 Please respond to Lee Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Kernel Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Question about RTC interrupts on i3

Question about RTC interrupts on i386

2000-12-14 Thread Lee Reynolds
I'm reading the book Linux Internals by Moshe Bar. Early on he describes the use of the real time clock to generate an interrupt 100 times a second. He explains that this value was chosen early in the development cycle of the linux kernel and is therefore relatively low compared to what current