From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KOetR-0003sN-Ph for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:37:01 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOetP-0003sE-VE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOetP-0003s2-Df for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:59 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36221 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOetP-0003rz-8b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:59 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:56452) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOetP-0002FO-9x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:36:59 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KOemV-0005UA-RJ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:29:52 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KOesK-0006ON-UK; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:35:52 +0200 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:35:52 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080731203552.GA24552@thorin> References: <20080623075438.5861e6d1@gibibit.com> <878wwi6bqy.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080704112801.470827ea@gibibit.com> <87tzekiecu.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080728100533.19118c0b@gibibit.com> <873alpkh1s.fsf@xs4all.nl> <20080731192455.GA12672@thorin> <87k5f1izql.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k5f1izql.fsf@xs4all.nl> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Colin D Bennett Subject: Re: [PATCH] High resolution time/TSC patch v3 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:37:00 -0000 On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:07:46PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan writes: > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:08:31PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > >> Colin D Bennett writes: > >> > >> > Another updated TSC patch. Now it detects TSC support for x86 CPUs at > >> > runtime and selects either the TSC or RTC time source. This way 386 > >> > and 486 CPUs without RDTSC instruction support are supported. > >> > > >> > Robert Millan was interested in getting this patch merged for the > >> > Coreboot port, so I decided to take another crack at it. > >> > > >> > Comments are welcome! > >> > >> Great! Did you have a look at Roberts comment that it does not work > >> in Qemu? This is the most important testing ground for many of us... > > > > No no, I said it doesn't work on Coreboot. > > Coreboot in Qemu? Yep -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."