On Wed, 2003-07-30 16:18:11 +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
wrote in message <Pine.GSO.3.96.1030730161309.911E-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > This small patch fixes a long-standing problem for bare i386 CPUs. These
> > don't have TSCs and so, a recent 2.4.x kernel will simply halt the
>
> Actually i486 processors and some Pentium-like clones have none, too.
Ah, I didn't know that. Here's the updated patch:
--- linux-2.4.22-pre9/arch/i386/config.in.orig 2003-07-30 16:38:03.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.22-pre9/arch/i386/config.in 2003-07-30 16:39:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
define_bool CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM n
define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
+ define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC n
else
define_bool CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_INVLPG y
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@
define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
+ define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC n
fi
if [ "$CONFIG_M586" = "y" ]; then
define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@
define_bool CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_PPRO_FENCE y
define_bool CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK n
+ define_bool CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC n
fi
if [ "$CONFIG_M586TSC" = "y" ]; then
define_int CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT 5
MfG, JBG
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