> which should take care of the problem wrt cyrix CPU's. I wanted to remove
> the APM workaround to see whether people will complain.
those people will also need the attached patch to compile time.c with
CONFIG_APM.
-- mingo
--- linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c.orig Wed May 20 22:48:07 1998
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c Wed May 20 22:48:40 1998
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
/* change this if you have some constant time drift */
#define USECS_PER_JIFFY (1000020/HZ)
-#ifndef CONFIG_APM /* cycle counter may be unreliable */
/* Cycle counter value at the previous timer interrupt.. */
static struct {
unsigned long low;
@@ -133,7 +132,6 @@
return edx;
}
-#endif
/* This function must be called with interrupts disabled
* It was inspired by Steve McCanne's microtime-i386 for BSD. -- jrs
@@ -248,7 +246,6 @@
return count;
}
-#ifndef CONFIG_APM
/*
* this is only used if we have fast gettimeoffset:
*/
@@ -256,7 +253,6 @@
{
do_gettimeofday(tv);
}
-#endif
static unsigned long (*do_gettimeoffset)(void) = do_slow_gettimeoffset;
@@ -429,7 +425,6 @@
#endif
}
-#ifndef CONFIG_APM /* cycle counter may be unreliable */
/*
* This is the same as the above, except we _also_ save the current
* cycle counter value at the time of the timer interrupt, so that
@@ -443,7 +438,6 @@
"=d" (last_timer_cc.high));
timer_interrupt(irq, NULL, regs);
}
-#endif
/* Converts Gregorian date to seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
* Assumes input in normal date format, i.e. 1980-12-31 23:59:59
-
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