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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: linux 2.5.25
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 01:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Linus Torvalds writes:

> Right now the x86 timer frequency is set to 1kHz, but that's just another 
> random number. It could be a config option if people really care, but I'd 
> rather just have people argue for or against specific internal frequencies 
> and we'll find something most people are happy with. It's easy to change 
> without user space even noticing now.

You could go by the CPU choice that already exists:

386      -->  100
486      -->  200
Pentium  -->  400
PPro     -->  800
P-III,P4 --> 1600
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