On 7/10/06, Jeremy Higdon <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 07:07:14AM -0600, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> Nothing is broken. Read Alan's statement carefully...
>
> --david
His statement can be read a couple of ways.
Alan said:
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From: Alan Cox <alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: 2006-06-29 21:02:08
Ar Iau, 2006-06-29 am 05:37 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jes Sorensen:
You have my vote for that one. Anything else is just going to cause
those broken userapps to continue doing the wrong thing. We should
really do this on all archs though.
No need, all current mainstream architectures expose a constant user HZ.
Alan
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Note that Alan didn't claim that *all* (Linux-supported) architectures
expose a constant user HZ, only the "mainstream" ones. I won't get
into the debate as to what qualifies as "mainstream", but clearly IA64
does not (and should not) expose a constant value, since there were no
legacy-binary-issue and we chose to insist that apps should uses
sysconf() or equivalent if they need to know the clocktick.
--david
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