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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] notsc option needs some attention/TLC
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:09, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > 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?

User boots TSC only kernel
User gets problem
User reads docs and says "notsc"
User still has problem
User confused.

In the TSC only case printing a message that the TSC disable was not
possible is IMHO good


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