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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tsc-disable_B9
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 15:33, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> But silenty breaking apps and not allowing in any way to apps to learn
> if the tsc is returning random or if it's returning something
> significant (I understand that's the way you did it in -ac) is a no-way
> by default IMHO.

All such apps and libraries are already broken have been silently broken
since about 1999 and will continue to be broken. Thats been true since
speedstep cpus appeared if not before.

Alan

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