Re: 2.6.17-rc1-mm1 - detects buggy TSC on GEODE

From: john stultz
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 20:37:36 EST


On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > as the 2 syslog extracts show;
> > 1. the new kernel is now detecting the buggy TSC on the GEODE-sc1100
> > 2. the bug is apparently correctable by passing 'idle=poll' on kernel
> > boot-line.
>
> John, does this mean that enable-tsc-for-amd-geode-gx-lx.patch is only safe
> to merge after all your time-management patches have gone in?

Hmmm. That would look to be the case from Jim's mail, although I'm not
very familiar with the hardware in question, so I could be wrong.

thanks
-john

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