Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Ah, if it was only that simple.  Transmeta actually did this, but it's 
> not as useful as you think.

For what it's worth, Transmeta's implementation used CPUID leaf 
0x80860001.ECX to give the TSC frequency rounded to the nearest MHz. 
The caveat of spread-spectrum modulation applies.

	-hpa
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