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Subject: Re: Bogomips Replacement
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On 10 Jul 2001 09:41:13 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Joe Barr <warthawg@ecpi.com> wrote:
> 
> > What I want to do is rip out the bogomips code and replace it with something
> > completely different.  Does anyone know who currently maintains it?  As I
> > recall from the Geek Bowl earlier this year in NYC, nobody really knows what
> > that bogomips stuff does anyway. 
> 
> The bogomips code is used to calibrate a timing loop which is used in various
> drivers and other places.  Where did you get the idea that nobody knows this?

it was a joke. get it?

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Robert M. Love
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rml at ufl.edu
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Robert M. Love
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