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john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 17:32, george anzinger wrote:
> 
>>IMHO I solved this problem in the high-res timers patch.  I have 
>>posted the core of the conversion stuff as a path (last night at 
>>23:24) with this subject "[PATCH] Functions to do easy scaled math." 
>>It consists of a header file containing a handful of inline asm code 
>>to do the messy stuff (i.e. the stuff C can't do due to standard 
>>restrictions).  I also provided an asm-generic version to fill the gap 
>>on other archs.  Oh, and there is even a text file to explain it all.
> 
> 
> Well... that's absurdly convenient. :)
> 
> I'll start looking at your code immediately. 
> 
If it looks useful, may be we can get it in...

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George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

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