[ipxe-devel] [PATCH] [EFI] Dynamically determine EFI tick count

[Leendert van Doorn]

On 6/13/16, 1:53 AM, "Michael Brown" <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

>We do not want to run the timer callback at the maximum possible rate, 
>since that is incredibly wasteful of CPU.

>The current code uses bs->SetTimer() to start a low-overhead timer 
>callback running at 20Hz, which is all we need to handle retransmission 
>timeouts.  (The equivalent timer under BIOS runs at 18.2Hz.)

Yes, I realized that this morning after my shower. It isn’t the frequency
of the timer that’s causing my problem but the duration of the link-wait
timeout.

Please ignore this patch,

Leendert