TSC and Cyrix

Trever Adams (highlander@teleteam.net)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 14:42:03 -0600

Well, 2.1.127 sound works great for me as well as the rest. I was under
the impression that TSC code that worked on Cyrix chips was included in
2.1.126, but from 2.1.127 /proc/cpuinfo I get

processor : 0
vendor_id : CyrixInstead
cpu family : 6
model : 84
model name : M II 3.5x Core/Bus Clock
stepping : 2.8
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de msr cx8 pge cmov mmx
bogomips : 231.01

Supposedly, in 2.1.127 it should output Mhz if the CPU supports TSC
(note that bogomips is pretty accurate to the Mhz with Cyrix chips, but
that is not what I am after). I have seen a tremendous speed up in all
apps (multitasking not just the foreground process) with 2.1.127, so I
assumed that the TSC code was active... now I found out it doesn't seem
to be.

Anyone out there care to shed some light?

Trever

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