Re: Booting the Debian installation CD on Powerbook G4 12"
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 19:42, paubert wrote:
> > Well... There might be a bigger problem if the kernel reports 53Mhz
> > on boot (that means upon frequency switch, the kernel internal timing
> > delays may be incorrectly adjusted).
>
> I'm still wondering why the timebase is not used to perform these
> delays. I know that the 601 will add a slightc omplication, but
> at least I don't know of any system in which the bus frequency,
> and therefore the timebase frequency, varies.
I'm wondering the same thing actually ;) At least for 6xx/7xx/7xxx
since other CPUs types have different timebase facilities (if any).
Probably just nobody bothered doing it yet.
Ben.
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