Michael Iedema wrote:
> It's needed to support the different hardware and architecture of the
> computer itself.  The kernel in the CF image is specific to the soekris
> boards.  Even if you could use the image in a standard x86 computer, the
> kernel has an option specific to the soekris boards that uses an
> alternative clock cycle time.  Your clock would be off.

I'm sure you can override

	kern.timecounter.method

at least at boot time.

Or you could modify PHK's ELAN timekeeping code to consult
a MIB value for the clock freq.