Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262956AbUDLQjz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262952AbUDLQjz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:55 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:59613 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262956AbUDLQjy (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2004 12:39:54 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16506.50767.128817.828166@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:39:43 -0700 To: dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rth@twiddle.net, spyro@f2s.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, davidm@hpl.hp.com, paulus@au.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, jes@trained-monkey.org, ralf@gnu.org, matthew@wil.cx, davem@redhat.com, wesolows@foobazco.org, jdike@karaya.com, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] sort out CLOCK_TICK_RATE usage [1/3] In-Reply-To: <20040412075704.B5198@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org> References: <20040412075519.A5198@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org> <20040412075704.B5198@Marvin.DL8BCU.ampr.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 671 Lines: 16 >>>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:57:05 +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski said: Thorsten> Introducing PIC_TIC_RATE. What's this meant for? At least for IA-64, there is zero guarantee that there will be a timer ticking at this rate. There are some machines where this is the case (the ones using Intel chipsets, I believe), but it isn't true for most machines with non-Intel chipsets (which are common). --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/