Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:03:42 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
       Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, zwane@arm.linux.org.uk,
       Linux-tiny@selenic.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out TSC support
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* Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> The following patch allows to remove the code needed to support the 
> TSC timer on x86 32 bits. The TSC seems to be mandatory on x86 64 
> bits. The patch adds a X86_TSC_TIMER option to enable/disable the 
> support.
> 
> A X86_TSC option already exists, but it is not an option, it's simply 
> set to true when the processor has a TSC. However, the purpose of the 
> patch is to disable the TSC support even if the processor has it.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo
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