Re: [PATCH]: allow notsc option for buggy cpus

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Mar 10 2001 - 15:28:37 EST


> > Intel are being remarkably reluctant on the documentation front. We have
> > the AMD speed change docs, but the intel ones (chipset not cpu based
> > primarily) don't seem to be publically available. In fact the 815M manual
> > looks like someone quite pointedly went through and removed the relevant
> > material before publication
>
> Isn't that one of the things that the ACPI is for ?
> Aren't we supposed to use ACPI for this ?

If you want to trust a large in kernel interpreter of binary only interpreter
code from a BIOS vendor be my guest. Im also not sure ACPI will give us the
notifications we need, even in the cases where it actually works.

Alan

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