Re: 9.1: boot-time delay?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> +options 	HZ=8000

> this can become a problem due to integer division.

> any number of ticks less than hz (8000) will be rounded down to 0 in
> a number of places now, where as before it was only less than 100.

Dividing by hz would be used to...all I can think of is, to convert a
tick count to seconds.  I have trouble imagining why/when that would be
a useful thing to do, nor who would do it yielding an integer and then
doing something that would affect autoconf timing with the result.

Since you've seen it happen, though, obviously someone has found a use
for it.  What am I missing?  (See also my latest update; it seems to be
related somehow to piixide/pciide.)

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