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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support
Date: 10 Nov 2006 09:35:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73zmazitru.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1163018557.23956.92.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> Fix two things. Firstly the unit is "Hz" not "HZ". Secondly it is useful
> to have 300Hz support when doing multimedia work. 250 is fine for us in
> Europe but the US frame rate is 30fps (29.99 blah for pedants). 300
> gives us a tick divisible by both 25 and 30, and for interlace work 50
> and 60. It's also giving similar performance to 250Hz.
> 
> I'd argue we should remove 250 and add 300, but that might be excess
> disruption for now.

If we go down that path I would like to have 256.

Why? There are still lots of systems with broken Interrupt 0 routing
and usually on those the RTC works just fine. But unfortunately RTC
can be only programmed to power of two frequencies. 256 would fit.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-10  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-08 20:42 [PATCH] HZ: 300Hz support Alan Cox
2006-11-08 20:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-08 21:12   ` Alan Cox
2006-11-08 21:01 ` Jiri Slaby
2006-11-08 22:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-11-10  8:35 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-11-10 12:10   ` Jan Engelhardt

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