On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:03:04AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :> > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/acpica5/acpi_timer.c.diff?r1=1.12&r2=1.13&f=u > : > :Please let me know if this change alone causes any problems to you. > :This one is needed for the sysresource patch I posted last month > :to work properly, but I wished to know if it has any side-effect > :to ACPI timer code. > : > :Cheers. > > Check that the system is still able to switch to using the ACPI timer > as its main timekeeping timer. It wasn't really designed to be done > at attach time but it might work ok.
Actually the commit moves the timer test from identify into probe, is it still not a good thing? I tried the patch on two machines(my laptop and my mail server), and it didn't change kern.cputimer.*, so I assume it didn't break the timer here. Cheers.
