Re: Question about RTC interrupts on i386

2000-12-15 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm not sure there's any particular advantage to the TOD clock on IRQ 8. It means that IRQ0 is free to be used for the PC speaker driver :) -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Question about RTC interrupts on i386

2000-12-15 Thread richardj_moore
You can get some interesting side effects if you incease the clock speed. I'm not saying that Linux will suffer, but I have seen problems on other Intel based systems - it all depends on what you do with the clock interrupt. Increasing the seed will give a finer grained pre-emption capability.