Subject: Re: Could run NetBSD 3.x or 4.0 on AlphaServer 2100 ?
To: Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@hjalmar.to>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/12/2007 16:47:49
On Apr 11, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Anders Hjalmarsson wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:49:48 PDT, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
>> Can you email me the dmesg please?
>
>
> Here is the dmesg, I compiled new current kernels from yesterdays  
> sources,
> both a uni and a mp kernel.
> I forgot to mention that there is one other problem with NetBSD on  
> this
> machine, the clock is wrong, I had to change
> hz = hwrpb->rpb_intr_freq >> 12;
> to
> hz = hwrpb->rpb_intr_freq >> 13;
> With this change I get a drift from ntp of 4.042 which seems  
> reasonable.

Just looked at Linux -- it divides the intr freq by 4096 (shift by 12)  
for all platforms... but they appear to not actually use this value  
for anything.

-- thorpej