From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
zwane@holomorphy.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5] notsc option needs some attention/TLC
Date: 09 Nov 2002 13:05:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1036847149.20313.2.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211091200.NAA19909@harpo.it.uu.se>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-09 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-09 12:00 Mikael Pettersson
2002-11-09 13:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-11-09 16:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-11-09 18:09 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-09 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-10 19:03 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-11-12 11:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-11-11 1:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-11 1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-11-11 8:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-11-11 13:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 19:10 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-09 17:52 J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-10 5:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-11-10 14:25 ` J.E.J. Bottomley
2002-11-09 4:52 Zwane Mwaikambo
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