Re: The Cyrix MediaGX saga

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:02:47 +1300


On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:39:00AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> Ok problem identified. Time appears to pass in interesting ways
> when measured by RDTSC on my MediaGX. Putting a 'dodgy_tsc()'
> routine called early by arch/i386/kernel/time.c in seems to have
> cured it. My MediaGXm is now running 2.1.131ac13andabit as well as
> the new XFree 3.3.3 just great

If you peridocially rdtsc from userland -- does it make sense?

-cw

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