H. Peter Anvin writes:
> RDTSC in Crusoe processors does basically this.
Hmmm, one of the advantages of using a seperate tick register for this
constant clock is that you can still do cycle accurate asm code
analysis even when the cpu is down clocked.
The joys of compatability I suppose :-)
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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