Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

perry%piermont.com@localhost wrote:

> I was under the impression that for some counters with fixed
> frequency, like the ACPI time register, that the frequency was
> determined by specification. Am I mistaken on that?

Usually crytal oscillators have 10~200 ppm tolerance
(including temperature dependency), so lower digits
(under ~100kHz on 1GHz CPU) are not so significant.

I'm just afraid such not-so-meaningful digits might confuse
some users.
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Izumi Tsutsui