In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone writes:
>On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:59:29AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> This is an interesting machine: A K6 wiht ACPI, havn't seen that
>> before.
>
>I had one of these machines and concluded that the ACPI time counter
>was busted. I dunno if it is possible to sanity check the time
>counter before using it? I just switched to using the TSC early in
>boot and forgot about it.

That is what I try to do, and I recently rewrote the code in current
for that exact reason, so I'm very interested in seeing the diagnostic
output (boot -v) from a -current kernel on these motherboards.

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