On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:22:27AM -0400, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
>
> If you've tried to use do_gettimeofday from within an RTAI-patched
> kernel (and maybe RTLinux, but I can't confirm this since I don't use it,
> but I've been told that this applies to RTLinux too), then you've noticed
RTLinux comes with a test to ensure that times advance properly.
> The real problem is with the fact that Linux depends on timer 0 of
> the PIT (8254) to keep track of time. It expects to have it's
> timer-interrupt handling routines be called once every 10ms. All
Every HZ. And 8254 is the only time base on 486 and early Pentium only.
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