In message <[email protected]>, Peter Jeremy write s:
>>I'm assuming folks are still in love with the TSC because it still the >>cheapest as oppose ACPI-fast or HPET to even contemplate this? > >That is its major advantage. It might be feasible to export all the >data necessary to implement the complete CLOCK_*_FAST family. The general attraction is that it can be read from userland by unpriviledged programs. On systems where the ACPI or HPET hardware can be memory-mapped, I should be equally possible to map those read-only into userland processes. Now _THAT_ would be interesting. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
