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

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-07-13T19:36:15Z

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.

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Dmitry