I have noticed that, as a result of my previous posts, you modified the
apm driver, setup.c and time.c in kernel 2.1.102.
The mod in setup.c is more or less:
if (cyrix_CPU_detected)
turn_off_tsc_flag;
which is sub-optimal, and breaks code that tries to detect TSC
capability by reading /proc/cpuinfo, in machines equipped with a 6x86MX
or a C6.
The Cyrix 6x86MX has a fully compatible TSC implementation. However, it
also allows turning off the CPU when a Halt state is entered, something
the Intel CPUs can't do, and this breaks the current implementation of
do_fast_gettimeoffset() in time.c.
The mod above also ignores the Centaur C6.
The following single mod to function time_init() in time.c correctly
handles both the 6x86MX and the Centaur C6 power-down features:
Replace:
if (boot_cpu_data.x86_capability & 16) {
...
By:
if ((boot_cpu_data.x86_capability & 16) && (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor !=
X86_VENDOR_CYRIX) && (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR)) {
...
Regards,
------------------------
André Balsa
andrebalsa@altern.org
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