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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  
>
> > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > And I'm incredibly frustrated by this insistence on hard data when it's
> > > completely obvious to anyone who knows the first thing about MIDI that
> > > HZ=250 will fail in situations where HZ=1000 succeeds.
> > >      
> > Ok, guys. How many people have this MIDI thing? How many of you can't be 
> > bothered to set the default to suit your usage?
> >    
> >
> > > It's straight from the MIDI spec.  Your argument is pretty close to "the
> > > MIDI spec is wrong, no one can hear the difference between 1ms and 4ms".
> > >      
> > No.
> >
> > YOUR argument is "nobody else matters, only I do".
> >
> > MY argument is that this is a case of give and take. 
> >    
> Take from "few" multimedia users, give to "many" laptop users. Where
> "few" and "many" are not very well defined quantities, but obviously
> "many" > "few" :-) 
Of course that assumes that these are not the same users, which clearly 
isn't true in all cases.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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