Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

Lee Revell
2005-07-12T19:38:40Z

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:08 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Well, looking forward, you'll have sub-HZ timers, so none of this will
> matter. Actually, looking at the above, 150 seems perfectly reasonable
> to me, but 300 seems to be close enough. I'll run some numbers on
> both.
>
> From your above email, I'm more convinced than ever that lowering HZ
> is the right thing to do ...

Another example is sending MIDI clock. This is not possible at HZ=100
as the jitter is too much for external devices to lock on to.

Lee