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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Manish Lachwani wrote:
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>>>>Why is this approach (in the patch) bad?
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>[...]
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>>>It's fragile because clock frequencies are changing faster in today's
>>>world of electronics than the weather in April.
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>[...]
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>>So? Can you be a little more clear?
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> Oh well, how can you assure a given binary will be booted on a CPU driven 
>by the right frequency?  Is the clock source inside the chip containing 
>the CPU at least?
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>  Maciej
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Ok, that make things clear. Thanks Maciej,

Manish Lachwani