Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754813AbXHJEgj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751062AbXHJEg2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:36:28 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:60811 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbXHJEg2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:36:28 -0400 Message-ID: <46BBEC37.5040900@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:40:23 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , rtc-linux@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: rtc max frequency setting References: <46B5148E.50302@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <46B5148E.50302@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 27 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> Hi, >> >> with the old rtc.ko module, there was a /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq >> that could be set. With rtc_cmos.ko (or the new rtc infrastructure in >> general), I am missing this file. Where can I set the max-user-freq now, >> or is this obsolete now? (mplayer prefers to have user-freq to be >= 1024.) >> > > Qemu wants something like this too. Both of these really want something > else, which is a high-frequency userspace timer. > > What is the best way to do that on modern kernels? > /proc/sys/dev/hpet/max-user-freq? But I notice that some kernels provide both values (my 2.6.15, was where I looked), so maybe the rtc went away. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/