On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:46:04AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: > > Technical footnote: I wish I understood 1) the difference between > ACPI-safe and ACPI-fast,
AIUI, they're nearly the same thing, and it has to do with some testing to determine how it can be reliably accessed. I've had systems that would sometimes come up with -fast, and other times -safe (I think one varied depending on cold vs. warm boot for instance). > and 2) how the system or OS "ranks" the timecounters (the higher the > value in parenthesis, supposedly the more accurate/preferred it is). That's easier; TTBOMK, they're hardcoded in the source based on developer SWAG about their relative expenses and reliabilities and precisions. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
