Re: [Etherboot-developers] I've just checked and ...

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Ronald G Minnich <rmi...@la...> writes:

> On 29 Aug 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote:
> 
> > That certainly looks like a piece of it.  Given the rough granularity
> > of i/o to port 0x80.  I would rather calibrate the counter on
> > something more precise, if I had the option.
> 
> I wish I could think of something.
> 
> > Does Linux need a special patch to run on the smartcore?  Or how does
> > it calibrate the tsc?
> 
> You know, I don't know. We just diagnosed the problem and applied this
> fix, and linux seemed to be happy. I never looked at this. Now you've made
> me curious :-)

If Linux has something fairly universal for x86 we can use that,
otherwise I want a config option.

As much as possible I prefer precise delays, so that things work
as much the same as possible between different machines.  Already
the user base is spread out enough it can be a challenge to reproduce
another users problems.

Eric