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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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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:57:14 -0400
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On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> > 
> > And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> > completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
> > HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.
> 
> Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing?

>  How many of you can't be 
> bothered to set the default to suit your usage?

Very few, and even fewer, respectively.  But, we'd still like to be able
to use the same kernel image as everyone else if possible.

I guess we'll have to deal with it until a variable tick solution is
ready.

Lee