On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Bodo Eggert wrote:

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> > But overclocking is not the problem for udelay, it would err to the saf=
e
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> > side. The problem would be a BUS having < 8 MHz, and since the days of
> > 80286, they are hard to find. IMO having an option to set the bus speed
> > for those systems should be enough.
> >=20
>=20
> There might have been a few 386/20's clocking the ISA bus at =AD=AD=F73
> (6.67 MHz) rather than =F72 (10 MHz) or =F72.5 (8 MHz).

Yes, and the remaining users should set the kernel option. Both of them.
The question is: How will they be told about the new kernel option?
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