Check out:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2001/08/03/0009.html

and environs...

-dgl-

>On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Charlie Allom wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:46:38PM -0400, -=Truman Beal=- wrote:
>> > Kinda common with PC's..  Excellent tools, awful clocks..  Take a look
>> > into ntp-
>>
>> Yup I only noticed because ntpd keeps stepping the time _back_ now i
>> look at it.
>>
>> I vaguely remember there being some OF fixes you could do on macppc.
>
>It's probably a slight error in the bus speed.  Grab clockometer, boot
>into Mac OS 9, find out what your real bus speed is, and then create an
>nvram patch that runs a little forth program to change the bus speed info
>in the processor's OF node.  (And no, I don't know how to do this.)
>
>
>David
>
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