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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:03:20 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: David Burrows <snadge@ugh.net.au>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dodgey Linus BogoMIPS code ;) (was Re: baffling linux bug)
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Maybe you can get the machine to boot by skipping the bogomips
> calculation completely - by hardcoding the value your machine used to 
> come up with?
> Not for production use - just to get a debugging kernel going.

One thing worth keeping in mind also is that Linux makes assumptions about 
the i8254 timer interval, try booting verbose in FreeBSD and try and 
see what you get.

	Zwane


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