On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the safe > > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of > > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed > > for those systems should be enough. > > > > There might have been a few 386/20's clocking the ISA bus at ÷3 > (6.67 MHz) rather than ÷2 (10 MHz) or ÷2.5 (8 MHz).
Yes, and the remaining users should set the kernel option. Both of them. The question is: How will they be told about the new kernel option? -- A man inserted an advertisement in the classified: Wife Wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
