From: Charles Cazabon <linux-kernel@discworld.dyndns.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bogomips Replacement
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:41:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010710094113.B22905@qcc.sk.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010710102935.5b5d6cfb.warthawg@ecpi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010710102935.5b5d6cfb.warthawg@ecpi.com>; from warthawg@ecpi.com on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:29:35AM -0500
Joe Barr <warthawg@ecpi.com> wrote:
> What I want to do is rip out the bogomips code and replace it with something
> completely different. Does anyone know who currently maintains it? As I
> recall from the Geek Bowl earlier this year in NYC, nobody really knows what
> that bogomips stuff does anyway.
The bogomips code is used to calibrate a timing loop which is used in various
drivers and other places. Where did you get the idea that nobody knows this?
Charles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-10 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-10 15:29 Bogomips Replacement Joe Barr
2001-07-10 15:41 ` Charles Cazabon [this message]
2001-07-10 16:12 ` Robert Love
2001-07-10 15:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-07-10 17:40 ` Rik van Riel
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