Re: VIA 686 timer bugfix incomplete

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:30:52 +0000 (GMT)

> Me thinks the real solution is the ACPI pm timer. 3 times the
> resolution of the PIT and you can not stop it. The high-res-timers
> patch will allow you to use this as the time keeper and just use the PIT
> to generate interrupts.

For awkward boxes you can use the PIT, for good boxes we can use rdtsc or
eventually the ACPI timers when running with ACPI
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