Re: Dodgey Linus BogoMIPS code ;) (was Re: baffling linux bug)

[David Burrows]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I didn't see one thing mentioning Linus in there... ;)  I could sue if you
> were selling something. ;)

Kind of.  Except Linus wrote the particular section of code in question.
=)

> Anyway, jiffies are same as HZ and on i386 100 jiffies/sec, and one timer
> interrupt per jiffie.

Or perhaps not in the case of my hardware functioning properly one day,
and never to boot linux (but fine with everything else) again..

I need a sure fire way of testing whether the timer interrupt works,
perhaps even a kernel patch to include such a check before initialising
the timers.  Is there a possibility of working around such problem?  I
would rather destroy this motherboard than sacrifice it to running
inferior operating systems for the remainder of its life. =)

Regards,

Dave.