[ipxe-devel] undi ipxe taking 100% cpu under vmware when boot server is offline

lustu.starrysky.cru at gmail.com lustu.starrysky.cru at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 21:05:12 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:12, Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk>wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 20:42:30 lustu.starrysky.cru at gmail.com wrote:
> > excuse me if I say something silly, as I am no expert in this matter...
> > wouldn't it be _much_ easier to use a greater demultiplier for the timer
> > interrupt, such that it will trigger more often than the default 18.2 Hz
> > frequency?
>
> The problem is that we have to cooperate with other software that will
> expect
> the timer to be running at the default rate.


i had imagined that... but that'd be after jumping to the kernel right?
couldn't we reprogram it back to 18.2 Hz right before then? or is there some
other software running in parallel to ipxe that would need it to be set at
18.2 Hz?

thanks!
-starry-
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