Daniel Walker writes: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 19:06 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > Well, the decrementer frequency may change, at least in theory (if the > > bus > > clock changes). > > Does that happen very often?
If it did, gettimeofday would start reporting seriously wrong values, since the timebase and the decrementer count at the same rate, and we don't have any provision for fixing things up if that rate changed. Fortunately there are no powerpc platforms where the rate is variable. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
