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

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So we should aim for a HZ value that makes it easy to convert to and from
> the standard user-space interface formats. 100Hz, 250Hz and 1000Hz are all
> good values for that reason. 864 is not.

How about 500?  This might be good enough to solve the MIDI problem.

Lee

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