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From: augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] DELAY in isa.c
Message-ID: <1992Oct29.223837.5796@cs.chalmers.se>
Date: 29 Oct 92 22:38:37 GMT
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In article <1992Oct29.220653.4520@cs.chalmers.se> augustss@cs.chalmers.se (Lennart Augustsson) writes:
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>Is the definition of DELAY in i386/isa/isa.c really correct?
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....
>Shouldn't that be
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>		while (tick == (getit(0,0) & 1)) ;
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Well, I'll follow up on my own article.  I tried changing DELAY
(I should have done that before posting, of course).  This resulted
in a hang during boot time.  I'm still convinced the original code
is not what was intended, but it works!




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