Scott Cheloha:

> The UltraSPARC IIe's %TICK register has a variable frequency.
> miod@ confirmed that the problem is real.

Indeed, I remember clocking down the Blade 100 with apm(8).

Somebody with access to the hardware might want to adapt the NetBSD
code that adds timecounter support for the STICK register.
Unfortunately it can't be read from userland.

> ok?

I don't have a sparc64 to test, but this makes sense.
ok naddy@

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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