Re: 2.1.122 oops: Div by 0 in gettimeofday

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:43:10 +0100 (BST)


> I cannot test anything (lack of hardware/time) but I have maybe
> an explanation: The TSC is only activated after the first use of it,
> following a power-on or a suspend; i.e. it is only counting after
> the first "rdtsc".

Its documented in the Cyrix errata and other notes. As to your fix there
is a much nicer fix which sorts out the APM problems as well as the timer
may stop problems and gives much better and faster clock handling. I've
been running it for a while now without trouble

Its done by Scott Ananian, Andrew Balsa, Phil Gladstone..

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