In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zwane Mwaikambo writes: : I'd just like to know wether there are any i386 boxes which don't have a : timer_freq of 1193182Hz I know there might be slight variations but i : still have to come across a box that doesn't, which leads me to the : purpose of this email. Do we need to do the 8254 clock calibration?
Yes. Almost *ALL* PCs in the field aren't exactly 11931282Hz. There's a lot of variance in this. PC have such crappy oscillators that calibration is required. The "slight" variation can be as large as +-300Hz, which is huge. :-(. But I'm a little biased here... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
