RE: [PATCH v3 3/3] x86/tsc_msr: Make MSR derived TSC frequency more accurate

From: David Laight
Date: Mon Feb 10 2020 - 05:08:46 EST


From: Andy Shevchenko
> Sent: 07 February 2020 22:12
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:55 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The "Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developerâs Manual
> > Volume 4: Model-Specific Registers" has the following table for the
> > values from freq_desc_byt:
>
> For the LGM people in Cc list. Hans included you in order to confirm
> what's going on with TSC on LGM SoC.
> Can you do it in a way that we certainly know clocks with good
> precision (and if Spread Spectrum is in use what should we put here)?

Isn't 'Spread Spectrum' just a scam so that the resonant detector
used by the test equipment fails to register anything?

David

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