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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is rtc0????
Date: 21 Jul 1995 10:40:37 +0200
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Craig Keenan <sundans@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>Question: What is this new device spewing out interrupts on IRQ 8??
The CMOS clock. (Is it ``real-time''? Depends...)
>in 2.0.5R, I see it with vmstat -i, I would assume real time clock, but
>could someone please explain the hardware details?
Which details? It's yet another clock. Get a good book on PC hard-
ware for an explanation (standard reference: Frank van Gilluwe).
>Is the kernel handling this defferently than before??
Depends on how you define `before'. I think, different from 1.1.5,
but not so different from 2.0.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
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