Subject: Re: port-i386/1835: Kernel compile dies in machdep.c if HZ is defined (i386)
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/15/1995 20:15:00
Leo Weppelman wrote:

>If the value of HZ you select cannot be made from the
>crystal-freq. without rounding errors, the system time will be drifting.

That's what the variables tickfix and tickfixcnt in kern_clock.c deal
with.

However, I believe it's wrong that the are initialised on
cpu_initclocks and not in kern_clock.c:initclocks().  This is entirely
machine independed code, after all.

Do I have to send-pr that?

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