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Hello.

Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Particularly Alchemy (and any other system supporting clock scaling) will
> need some work there since the cp0 count/compare timer are not useful on
> such systems.

    Hm, why it's being used then? :-)

>   Ralf

WBR, Sergei