Re: athlon 64 dual core tsc out of sync

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Sun Feb 05 2006 - 00:06:19 EST


On Sunday 05 February 2006 03:02, Ed Sweetman wrote:
[snip]
> In any case it's been generally accepted that pm timer is suggested to
> get around these errors, but i've been unable to use mine, there is no
> config option in menuconfig/gconfig etc and my .config seems to show
> that it's compiled in. Boot args like timer=pmtmr and just pmtmr and
> having nothing have resulted in the same dmesg output , with no mention
> of using the pm-timer. I know I used it in 2.6.14.3 and never had any
> sync issues, my setup and config hasn't changed since then except for
> the use of libata for pata. So how can i determine what's going on
> here? Default or not, i'd like to get the pmtmr in use if it's what
> works.

On x86 (NOT x86-64), clock=pmtmr does what you want.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
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