Subject: Re: [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus
To: matti.aarnio@zmailer.org (Matti Aarnio)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:28:37 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
        anton@linuxcare.com.au (Anton Blanchard), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <20010310222146.L23336@mea-ext.zmailer.org> from "Matti Aarnio" at Mar 10, 2001 10:21:46 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> > Intel are being remarkably reluctant on the documentation front.  We have
> > the AMD speed change docs, but the intel ones (chipset not cpu based
> > primarily) don't seem to be publically available. In fact the 815M manual
> > looks like someone quite pointedly went through and removed the relevant
> > material before publication
> 
> 	Isn't that one of the things that the ACPI is for ?
> 	Aren't we supposed to use  ACPI  for this ?

If you want to trust a large in kernel interpreter of binary only interpreter
code from a BIOS vendor be my guest. Im also not sure ACPI will give us the
notifications we need, even in the cases where it actually works.

Alan

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