cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_clock.c kern_intr.c kern_random.c kern_systimer.c kern_time.c src/sys/sys systimer.h src/sys/dev/misc/pps pps.c src/sys/dev/serial/sio sio.c src/sys/i386/isa clock.c
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Jun 1 10:58:46 PDT 2005
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 06:51:30PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> > Log:
> > Implement a new cputimer infrastructure to allow us to support different
> > time bases. This is in preparation for adding support for the ACPI timer
> > as the system's free-running counter instead of the i8254 timer 1 or timer 2.
>
> One day I will understand this...
It's simply another level of indirection, not any kind of rocket science.
Hm. Well, actually that is rocket science :)
Joerg
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