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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Are you sure the timebase clock is what the kernel thinks it is? Does<BR>
>the time-of-day clock progress at the correct rate?<BR>
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The kernel receives the CPU clock from the bdinfo structure and thus I think the kernel knows how fast the CPU is.<BR>
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Bye,<BR>
Antonio.<BR>
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