Im hoping not. That would imply we interrupted someone half way through
reading the counter which means the locking is screwed up.
> By the way, if we made the 8254 accesses (spinlock?) protected (which
> should be done anyway, right now definitely more than one CPU can access
> the registers at once), I think we could remove the outb(0, 0x43);,
> saving some cycles.
Some chipsets need the outb
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