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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: KVM: PIT: support mode 4
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:07:02 +0300
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> The in-kernel PIT emulation ignores pending timers if operating under
> mode 4, which for example DragonFlyBSD uses (and Plan9 too, apparently).
>
> Mode 4 seems to be similar to one-shot mode, other than the fact that it
> starts counting after the next CLK pulse once programmed, while mode 1
> starts counting immediately, so add a FIXME to enhance precision.
>
> Fixes https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=893831&aid=1952988&group_id=180599
>   

Applied, thanks.

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