Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 14:43:30 EST


On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:08 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Well, looking forward, you'll have sub-HZ timers, so none of this will
> matter. Actually, looking at the above, 150 seems perfectly reasonable
> to me, but 300 seems to be close enough. I'll run some numbers on
> both.
>
> From your above email, I'm more convinced than ever that lowering HZ
> is the right thing to do ...

Another example is sending MIDI clock. This is not possible at HZ=100
as the jitter is too much for external devices to lock on to.

Lee

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