Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_clock.c kern_intr.c kern_random.c kern_systimer.c kern_time.c src/sys/sys systimer.h src/sys/dev/misc/pps pps.c src/sys/dev/serial/sio sio.c src/sys/i386/isa clock.c

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 06:51:30PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   Implement a new cputimer infrastructure to allow us to support different
> >   time bases.  This is in preparation for adding support for the ACPI timer
> >   as the system's free-running counter instead of the i8254 timer 1 or timer 2.
> 
> One day I will understand this...

It's simply another level of indirection, not any kind of rocket science.
Hm. Well, actually that is rocket science :)

Joerg