Subject: Re: What do you use NetBSD/Mac68k for??
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: Michael R. Zucca <mrz5149@acm.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/2002 15:30:20
Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> the problem with time slippage on the macs is that it's highly dependent
> on disk usage and thus more random than systematic.  ntp has a really
> hard time coping when random exceeds systematic error.
>
> basically the SCSI drivers have interrupts turned off so long that clock
> interrupts are getting lost...


I know I must be making horse-paste saying this, but is there a free 
running counter register somewhere on the 68k Macs that we could use to 
adjust for lost clock ticks?

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