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Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:32 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 7/13/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > So we should aim for a HZ value that makes it easy to convert to and from
> > > the standard user-space interface formats. 100Hz, 250Hz and 1000Hz are all
> > > good values for that reason. 864 is not.
> > 
> > How about 500?  This might be good enough to solve the MIDI problem.
> >
> 
> I would expect number of laptop users significatly outnumber ones
> driving MIDI so as a default entry 250 makes more sense IMHO.
>  

Alan tested it and said that 250HZ does not save much power anyway.

Lee