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El Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:13:44 -0400,
Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> escribió:

> How about 500?  This might be good enough to solve the MIDI problem.

In 2.4 suse kernels you could set HZ at boot time. Since it doesn't seems
possible to find a HZ value that makes everybody happy, would be feasible
to do what suse did?

Some distros are already carrying programs which try to guess if a box
is a laptop or not, and then set some parameters (laptop-mode, cpufreq)
if they are. If HZ could be set at boot time they could use those heuristics
to add a extra boot flag in the boot loader without needing to recompile
the kernel

It'd be very uselful for distros, the same distro can be installed in a
multimedia-oriented box or a laptop, and no default is going to make
everybody happy...