From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
Tom Eastep <teastep@seattlefirewall.dyndns.org>,
"Michael B. Trausch" <fd0man@crosswinds.net>,
Josh Myer <jbm@joshisanerd.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 22:29:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A871252.45974FFF@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14Rzyc-0004SB-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I can make it loose 30 seconds in 12 seconds. Just cat
> > /etc/termcap. Vesafb does this kind of stuff. [Yes, 3 times slower
> > clock].
>
> Why are interrupts being disabled for vesafb scrolling anyway ?
Console writes happen under spin_lock_irq(console_lock).
The only reason for this which I can see: the kernel
can call printk() from interrupt context.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-04 4:32 [OT] Major Clock Drift Josh Myer
2001-02-04 4:42 ` Manfred Bartz
2001-02-04 12:56 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-04 15:18 ` Steve Underwood
2001-02-04 15:31 ` Hacksaw
2001-02-04 23:46 ` Alan Chandler
2001-02-04 17:18 ` Tom Eastep
2001-02-04 18:04 ` Hacksaw
2001-02-04 18:07 ` Tom Eastep
2001-02-05 13:25 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-10 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-11 11:05 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-11 11:06 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-11 11:47 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-11 12:14 ` Peter Horton
2001-02-11 13:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-02-05 1:18 ` Michael B. Trausch
2001-02-13 3:00 ` george anzinger
2001-02-13 6:51 ` Josh Myer
2001-02-10 21:58 ` [OT] " Pavel Machek
2001-02-11 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-11 22:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-02-12 9:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-12 10:05 ` Andi Kleen
2001-02-12 10:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-12 12:14 ` James Sutherland
2001-02-12 10:32 ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-12 10:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-12 11:38 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-13 7:24 ` Abramo Bagnara
2001-02-10 21:55 ` Pavel Machek
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