On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Dresner, Norman A. wrote: > You're probably using a computer with an x86 architecture. AFAIK, every > Linux implementation except the Alpha CPU uses a clock rate (jiffies) of 100 > Hz or 10 ms; the Alpha uses 1 Khz. Your choices then are: > 1. Use an Alpha with normal Linux and hope for the best > 2. Use Real-Time Linux (RTLinux) on any platform it's been ported > to.
Hang on. Aren't jiffies worked out at boot-time, or is that only because I've only read the source for the x86? I'm sure I remember linux doing some timing loops to discover BogoMips, then working out how big a jiffy is from there? [Note: I _would_ read the source, except my machine went out of contention and now I'm on a friend's box that's only windows] Gary (-; -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/
