Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965014AbVKOUUr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:20:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965034AbVKOUUr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:20:47 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:1971 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965014AbVKOUUr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:20:47 -0500 Message-ID: <437A4315.6040604@nortel.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:20:37 -0600 From: "Christopher Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" CC: evan@coolrunningconcepts.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Timer idea References: <20051115102425.0iln2874xjoc4g84@coolrunningconcepts.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2005 20:20:38.0885 (UTC) FILETIME=[0B45F950:01C5EA22] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 512 Lines: 14 linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On ix86 machines, basic time comes from chip(s), read from ports. > That's just another tiny little problem. I'm sure you already know this, but x86 can also use the HPET for timestamps, as well as the TSC if it's available. Chris - 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/