Re: REGRESSION: the new i386 timer code fails to sync CPUs

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi,

Arjan van de Ven:
> if the hardware side is different *speed*.. then a tsc sync ain't going
> to work... sure we write to it but it's immediately out of sync again
> 
No, it's in fact the same speed -- the BIOS just reads it wrongly.

I checked: the two date values do advance at the same rate.

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