Re: TSC patch was: Linux 2.3.99pre9-2 JOB list

From: Christopher Thompson (chris@hypocrite.org)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 15:11:13 EST


On Mon, 22 May 2000, you wrote:
> Hmm, a while ago I prepared a patch to disable TSC via a "notsc" kernel
> command line option. I needed it to test SMP support for TSC-less
> systems. While it makes the kernel larger by a few instructions, all of
> them are located in the init section and are discarded after a bootup.
> There is no runtime impact on the patch.

Thanks. But this patch did not work for me. The problem is that I need to
disable TSC on TSC-capable CPUs and so the code that goes in the #ifndef
CONFIG_X86_TSC never gets compiled in.

-- 
Christopher Thompson  http://hypocrite.org/

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