Re: [PATCH] setup.c notsc Re: Microsecond accuracy

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 09:10:26 EST


>
> The present situation is inconsistent: "notsc" removes cpuinfo's
> "tsc" flag in the UP case (when cpu_data[0] is boot_cpu_data), but
> not in the SMP case. I don't believe HPA's recent mods affected that
> behaviour, but it is made consistent (cleared in SMP case too) by the
> patch I sent him a couple of days ago, below updated for test12-pre7...
>

Great. You've taken something that was somewhat broken in the UP case and
introduced massive braindamage in the SMP case. What really needs to be is
that the global enables (boot_cpu_data) should be exposed.

    -hpa

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