Re: Hangs after "Loading" but before "Uncompressing"

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 04:02:38 EST

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Hi!

> This same mechanism can be used for small timeouts in kernel
> drivers. In other words, we don't really need 'BogoMIPS'. You
> can spin on the hardware rather than a register-count.

I took a look and reading timer hardware is much too slow for
replacing bogomips. (Do_slow_gettimeoffset takes 3usec or so. Much too
much.)

Pavel

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