bsd4.2 on 11/785

Chris Torek chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Thu Oct 17 16:57:25 AEST 1985


In article <3252 at nsc.UUCP> chuqui at nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:

> the kernel DELAY() routine is implemented by a register countdown
> loop. ...  there really ought to be a way to build a decent delay
> routine without making processor speed assumptions...

With the 8600 support in 4.3, the `DELAY' macro now multiplies your
delay by the CPU speed factor, this having been gleaned from the
per-cpu data structures during autoconfig.
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