From: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <morton@nortelnetworks.com>,
ebuddington@wesleyan.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: time drift and fb comsole activity
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010228170412.N28471@ftsoj.fsmlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010228165942.M28471@ftsoj.fsmlabs.com> <E14YGZj-0006nh-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14YGZj-0006nh-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:04:04AM +0000
} > } The fbdev console problem is too horrible to pretend to solve by resyncing
} > } on timer interrupts. At least for the x86 the fix is to sort out the fb
} > } locking properly
} >
} > How close is that?
}
} Its not in itself a big problem, but since it doesnt reformat your hard disk,
} explode randomly or drop you off the network its not at the top of my priority
} list right now
I'll stick with the pretend fix that results in accurate time-keeping,
then.
Thanks for the info.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-28 22:00 Eric Buddington
2001-02-28 23:37 ` Andrew Morton
2001-02-28 23:50 ` Cort Dougan
2001-03-01 0:01 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-28 23:59 ` Cort Dougan
2001-03-01 0:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 0:04 ` Cort Dougan [this message]
2001-03-01 0:43 ` Brad Douglas
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