On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:17:54PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:

> I upgraded my Soekris 4801 to NetBSD 3.1.  Using the GENERIC kernel, it
> still keeps awful time.  I reset the time at 1:00 PM today, and already
> (at 2:00) it thinks it's 3:47 PM.  
> 
> I had been told by a reliable source this is fixed?  

i have the same problem with my soekris. it does not seem to have
a very precise crystal but i'm not sure about it. i was a bit
surprised of the low quality. i get the same message about the broken
tsc.

my last time resets are :

Nov  9 19:33:47 gilb ntpd[12848]: time reset -0.154230 s
Nov 10 17:48:14 gilb ntpd[12848]: time reset -0.170161 s

and i get plenty of tolerance exceed stuff :

Nov 12 02:54:51 gilb ntpd[12848]: time reset +0.340310 s
Nov 12 03:00:16 gilb ntpd[12848]: frequency error -512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM
Nov 12 03:17:31 gilb ntpd[12848]: time reset +0.258727 s
Nov 12 03:22:53 gilb ntpd[12848]: frequency error 512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM
Nov 13 14:03:58 gilb ntpd[12848]: time reset -0.179926 s

sometimes it spends hours and hours working and then it sends me series
of ppm tolerance stuff.

i have not yet tried the TIMER_FREQ thing.

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