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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] notsc option needs some attention/TLC
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 12:00, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> If we configure for "I have a TSC, period" you add the option
> to disable it, which nullifies any benefit of the config option
> in the first place since we can't assume TSC presence any more.
> If we don't configure for TSC, you force tsc_disable, which means
> that a generic kernel _can't_ use the TSC.

2.4 was modified to printk a message that TSC was not disabled. This
does confuse people

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