Re: Dodgey Linus BogoMIPS code ;) (was Re: baffling linux bug)

From: David Burrows (snadge@ugh.net.au)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 20:29:20 EST


On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> I didn't see one thing mentioning Linus in there... ;) I could sue if you
> were selling something. ;)

Kind of. Except Linus wrote the particular section of code in question.
=)

> Anyway, jiffies are same as HZ and on i386 100 jiffies/sec, and one timer
> interrupt per jiffie.

Or perhaps not in the case of my hardware functioning properly one day,
and never to boot linux (but fine with everything else) again..

I need a sure fire way of testing whether the timer interrupt works,
perhaps even a kernel patch to include such a check before initialising
the timers. Is there a possibility of working around such problem? I
would rather destroy this motherboard than sacrifice it to running
inferior operating systems for the remainder of its life. =)

Regards,

Dave.

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