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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:27:07 -0600
From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: gettimeofday question
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Russell King wrote:
> This problem has a non-trivial solution, and I think whoever originally
> wrote the x86 do_gettimeofday code decided that it wasn't worth finding
> a solution to it.

So are you going to use the x86 solution and not worry about the >10ms
problem for now?  The x86 is an improvement over the current situation
(at least on ebsa285).  Or do you have something else in mind?

Eli
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