Re: DECstation 5000/200 timekeeping

Mouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Did you submit a PR for the broken time-keeping?

No.  Do you expect there would there be any interest in a PR for my
mutant NetBSD 5.2?  I've been assuming such PRs would draw nothing but
"Fixed in more recent NetBSD" - if even that much.

> Hmm, as it happens we have a timekeeping problem with the VAX port
> too, cf. PR port-vax/56383, so I wonder if this is something generic,
> perhaps specific to slower systems which can miss interrupts more
> easily if we're not careful enough in making them delivered in a
> timely manner.

It wouldn't surprise me, though I have no specific evidence for it.

					Mouse
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