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Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 13:09:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] notsc option needs some attention/TLC
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On 9 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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

This is all very confusing, notsc isnn't supposed to work with cpus with 
TSCs?

	Zwane
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