Re: IA64 implementation of timesource for new time of day subsystem

Ulrich Windl
2005-05-17T08:07:27Z

On 16 May 2005 at 12:29, David Mosberger wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:24:08 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> said:
>
> Christoph> Other IA64 vendors will see that their timer performance
> Christoph> drops significantly after the new timer subsystem is
> Christoph> in. IBM no longer has IA64 systems that rely on ITC?
>
> Would that somehow make it ok to break existing and working code?

AFAIR the design goal was not to make a new time implementation, but to make a
more precise one ;-)

Regards,
Ulrich