Re: kern/56322: Excessive clock drift

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/56322; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/56322: Excessive clock drift
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:30:32 +0000

 On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 03:05:01PM +0000, Frank Kardel wrote:
  > So I had to propose the next known workable alternative instead of
  > timecounters that haven't been detected :-). HPET is sometimes
  > disabled in BIOS.
 
 Like I said, I'll check that next time I reboot this machine, which
 isn't ordinarily very often.
 
  >  So far we do not know the output of "sysctl kern.timercounter".
 
 Like I already said, it was using the bad HPET.
 
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 David A. Holland
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