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Subject: Re: [patch 06/10] 40x decrementer fixes
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Josh Boyer wrote:

>>>>on 40x to match the behavior 44x currently has.

>>>    Why bother doing this?! This will only warrant you imprecise decrementer 
>>>interrupts while it should be interrupting at the precise period currently (if 
>>>you load PIT once)...

>>    I.e. the error will only accumulate. NAK.

> What error exactly?  I'm not following you there.  If there really is

   I was assuming that the decrementer is in auto-reload mode.  Brain fade. :-<

> josh

WBR, Sergei